The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 - English essays |
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... lord and master of the house , to enter it as his own , and ( which is worst of all ) without giving notice to us to provide for his en- tertainment . What man is such a fool in common life , as to take up his abode in a tenement , of ...
... lord and master of the house , to enter it as his own , and ( which is worst of all ) without giving notice to us to provide for his en- tertainment . What man is such a fool in common life , as to take up his abode in a tenement , of ...
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... Lord , who by thy mighty power Hast search'd me out in every part , Thou know'st each thought at every hour , Or e'er it rises to my heart . 2 In whatsoever path I stray , Where'er I make my bed at night , No maze can so conceal my way ...
... Lord , who by thy mighty power Hast search'd me out in every part , Thou know'st each thought at every hour , Or e'er it rises to my heart . 2 In whatsoever path I stray , Where'er I make my bed at night , No maze can so conceal my way ...
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... Lord , avenge the good ! Shall not blasphemers be destroy'd ? Depart from me , ye men of blood , Hence murderer , and my sight avoid ! 20 Loud are their hostile voices heard To take thy sacred name in vain : 21 Am I not griev'd ? Doth ...
... Lord , avenge the good ! Shall not blasphemers be destroy'd ? Depart from me , ye men of blood , Hence murderer , and my sight avoid ! 20 Loud are their hostile voices heard To take thy sacred name in vain : 21 Am I not griev'd ? Doth ...
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... Lord and Ruler . ' This is a strain in the sublime style of the Psalmist , and similar ideas of the Supreme Being may be collected from the remains of various heathen writers . Antiphanes , the Socratic philosopher , says , ' That God ...
... Lord and Ruler . ' This is a strain in the sublime style of the Psalmist , and similar ideas of the Supreme Being may be collected from the remains of various heathen writers . Antiphanes , the Socratic philosopher , says , ' That God ...
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... lord of all things will exact , whose tremendous name is not to be uttered by my lips , and he it is who limits the appointed date of the transgressor . " It is curious to discover sentiments of this vene- rable sort in the fragment of ...
... lord of all things will exact , whose tremendous name is not to be uttered by my lips , and he it is who limits the appointed date of the transgressor . " It is curious to discover sentiments of this vene- rable sort in the fragment of ...
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Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 127 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...
Page 129 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it, then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 110 - I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 213 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
Page 93 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.