The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... come to town , and under my care for her education . She is very pretty , but you can't ima- gine how unformed a creature it is . She comes to my hands just as Nature left her , half finished , and * How could it be otherwise , when the ...
... come to town , and under my care for her education . She is very pretty , but you can't ima- gine how unformed a creature it is . She comes to my hands just as Nature left her , half finished , and * How could it be otherwise , when the ...
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... comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth . repair our bodies by the drugs of America , and re- pose ourselves under Indian canopies . My friend Sir Andrew , calls the vineyards of France our gar- dens ; the spice - islands ...
... comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth . repair our bodies by the drugs of America , and re- pose ourselves under Indian canopies . My friend Sir Andrew , calls the vineyards of France our gar- dens ; the spice - islands ...
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... comes too late to be useful , I left him to be convinced of his mistake in due time , and continued my walk , reflecting on these little absences and distractions in mankind , and resolving to make them a subject of a future speculation ...
... comes too late to be useful , I left him to be convinced of his mistake in due time , and continued my walk , reflecting on these little absences and distractions in mankind , and resolving to make them a subject of a future speculation ...
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... comes down in a morning , opens his door to go out , but shuts it again , because he perceives that he has his night - cap on ; and , examining himself further , finds that he is but half - shaved , that he has stuck his sword on his ...
... comes down in a morning , opens his door to go out , but shuts it again , because he perceives that he has his night - cap on ; and , examining himself further , finds that he is but half - shaved , that he has stuck his sword on his ...
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... comes into the draw- ing - room , and , walking bolt - upright under a branch of candlesticks , his wig is caught up by one of them , and hangs dangling in the air . All the courtiers fall a laughing , but Menalcas laughs louder than ...
... comes into the draw- ing - room , and , walking bolt - upright under a branch of candlesticks , his wig is caught up by one of them , and hangs dangling in the air . All the courtiers fall a laughing , but Menalcas laughs louder than ...
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Seite 204 - Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon.
Seite 31 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows .originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art...
Seite 225 - ... the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose ? Can He delight in the production of such abortive intelligences, such short-lived reasonable beings ? Would He give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified...
Seite 212 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.
Seite 205 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Seite 202 - ROGER'S Family, because it consists of sober and staid Persons; for as the Knight is the best Master in the World, he seldom changes his Servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his Servants never care for leaving him: By this Means his Domesticks are all in Years, and grown old with their Master. You would take his Valet...
Seite 130 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Seite 58 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Seite 228 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Seite 35 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar...