The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... expression in that stanza , To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ! The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity ...
... expression in that stanza , To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ! The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity ...
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... expressions in the mouths of great men , Such things as That , ' and The like of That ? ' " I am not against reforming the corruptions of speech you mention , and own there are proper sea- sons for the introduction of other words ...
... expressions in the mouths of great men , Such things as That , ' and The like of That ? ' " I am not against reforming the corruptions of speech you mention , and own there are proper sea- sons for the introduction of other words ...
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... expression , that the quoting any part of it would look like a design of turning it into ridi- cule . But though the language is mean , the thoughts , as I have before said , from one end to the other , are natural , and therefore ...
... expression , that the quoting any part of it would look like a design of turning it into ridi- cule . But though the language is mean , the thoughts , as I have before said , from one end to the other , are natural , and therefore ...
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with ourselves in this particular , by all those various turns of expression and thought which are peculiar to his writings . I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former ...
with ourselves in this particular , by all those various turns of expression and thought which are peculiar to his writings . I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former ...
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... expression would be the most lively wit and satire ! But his heart was better disposed , and the good man chastised the great wit in such a manner , that he was able to speak as follows . " Amongst too many other instances of the great ...
... expression would be the most lively wit and satire ! But his heart was better disposed , and the good man chastised the great wit in such a manner , that he was able to speak as follows . " Amongst too many other instances of the great ...
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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...