The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 2Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... understandings . It is not to be expressed , how pleasing the order , the discipline , the regularity , of their lives , is to a philosopher , who has , by many years ' experience in the world , learned to condemn every thing but what ...
... understandings . It is not to be expressed , how pleasing the order , the discipline , the regularity , of their lives , is to a philosopher , who has , by many years ' experience in the world , learned to condemn every thing but what ...
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... understanding the fashion . Col. Plume . Why , Sir Mark , in the beginning of July a man would have been censured for want of courage , or been thought indigent of the true no- tions of honour , if he had put up words , which in the end ...
... understanding the fashion . Col. Plume . Why , Sir Mark , in the beginning of July a man would have been censured for want of courage , or been thought indigent of the true no- tions of honour , if he had put up words , which in the end ...
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... understandings with the very pretty fellows in that chimera of a duel ? Sir Mark . There is no disputing against so great a majority . Mr. Sage . But there is one scruple , Colonel Plume , and I have done . Do not you believe there may ...
... understandings with the very pretty fellows in that chimera of a duel ? Sir Mark . There is no disputing against so great a majority . Mr. Sage . But there is one scruple , Colonel Plume , and I have done . Do not you believe there may ...
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... understanding , as we should avert our eyes with abhorrence from such as live in perpetual abuse and contradiction to these noble fa- culties . Shall this unfortunate man be divested of his estate , because he is tractable and indolent ...
... understanding , as we should avert our eyes with abhorrence from such as live in perpetual abuse and contradiction to these noble fa- culties . Shall this unfortunate man be divested of his estate , because he is tractable and indolent ...
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... and I do not doubt but if the patron would part with it , I can help him to others with good pretensions to it , viz . of uncommon understanding , ' There is , who will give him as much as he gave for II . E N ° 43 . 37 TATLER .
... and I do not doubt but if the patron would part with it , I can help him to others with good pretensions to it , viz . of uncommon understanding , ' There is , who will give him as much as he gave for II . E N ° 43 . 37 TATLER .
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Page 278 - Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 42 - Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 110 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 71 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt...
Page 277 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 236 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away...
Page 288 - They here began to breathe a delicious kind of ether, and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of purple light...
Page 286 - ... others telescopes, and others pencils; some had laurels on their heads, and others buskins on their legs : in short, there was scarce any instrument of a mechanic art or liberal science which was not made use of on this occasion. My good...
Page 292 - I desired my guide, for variety, to lead me to the fabulous apartment, the roof of which was painted with gorgons, chimeras, and centaurs, with many other emblematical figures, which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle. The first table was almost full: at the upper end sat Hercules, leaning an arm upon his club...
Page 208 - ... nation, these shall be unmentioned ; provided we hear no more of such practices, and that they shall not from henceforward suffer the society of such as they know to be the common enemies of order, discipline, and virtue. If it appear that they go on in encouraging them, they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history, where all is to be laid before the world with impartiality, and •without respect to persons, ' So let the stricken deer go weep.