The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 37 |
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... amidst the boasted , refinement of mode manners , the gentlemen paid less attention to th ladies , both in public places and in private society than they had done fifty years ago . After some time passed in this manner , the nois of ...
... amidst the boasted , refinement of mode manners , the gentlemen paid less attention to th ladies , both in public places and in private society than they had done fifty years ago . After some time passed in this manner , the nois of ...
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... AMIDST the variety of objects around us , philos phers have frequently been employed in pointing ou and distinguishing those which are the sources o pleasure , and those which are productive of pain they have endeavoured also to ...
... AMIDST the variety of objects around us , philos phers have frequently been employed in pointing ou and distinguishing those which are the sources o pleasure , and those which are productive of pain they have endeavoured also to ...
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... amidst all his virtue , is represented as unhappy anxiety which we feel for his happiness beco much the greater ; the more undeserved cala he meets with , the higher is that principle by which we desire that he should attain an add ...
... amidst all his virtue , is represented as unhappy anxiety which we feel for his happiness beco much the greater ; the more undeserved cala he meets with , the higher is that principle by which we desire that he should attain an add ...
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... . Naturally rather of a sober disposition , I found more frequently disgust than pleasure amidst those scenes of dissipation in which I was engaged . I was often obliged to roar out a catch expressive 18 N ° 78 . THE MIRROR .
... . Naturally rather of a sober disposition , I found more frequently disgust than pleasure amidst those scenes of dissipation in which I was engaged . I was often obliged to roar out a catch expressive 18 N ° 78 . THE MIRROR .
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... Amidst a variety of instances , I shall make choice of one , merely because it strikes my view in last night's Public Advertiser . It is the production of a very voluminous writer in this de partment , Mr. Norton , of Golden - square ...
... Amidst a variety of instances , I shall make choice of one , merely because it strikes my view in last night's Public Advertiser . It is the production of a very voluminous writer in this de partment , Mr. Norton , of Golden - square ...
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acquaintance acquired admiration affections amidst amusement appearance APRIL 18 attended battle of Culloden behaviour bestow called Captain Winterbottom character circumstances conversation cried death dinner Emilia fashion father favour feelings Figure-making flatter Flint folly fortune French frequently friends gentleman give Hamlet happy heard honour humour Jemmy ladies language learned letter live look Louisa Lucullus manners MARCH 25 marriage melan melancholy Melfort ment mind MIRROR Miss Juliana Miss Punaise nature neral never nonsense verses object obliged observed paper passions perhaps persons pleasure poor pride of mind pupil racter readers received satire of Juvenal SATURDAY Saxo Grammaticus Scotland seemed sensibility sentiment servants Shakspeare shew Sir Edward sister situation society sometimes soon sort spirit taste tell thing thought tion told torrent streams town trifles Umphraville uneasiness Venoni virtue wish woman writing XXXVII young
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Página 73 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Página 156 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 39 - That care, however, which watched his health was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Página 73 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 159 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 70 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Página 222 - The idea of publishing a periodical paper in Edinburgh, took its rise in a company of gentlemen, whom particular circumstances of connection brought frequently together. Their discourse often turned upon subjects of manners, of taste, and of literature. By one of those accidental resolutions, of which the origin cannot easily be traced, it was determined to put their thoughts into writing, and to read them for the entertainment...
Página 217 - Edward's whole tenderness and attention were called forth to mitigate her grief; and, after its first transports had subsided, he carried her to London, in hopes that objects new to her, and commonly attractive to all, might contribute to remove it. With a man possessed of feelings like Sir Edward's, the affliction of Louisa gave a certain respect to his attentions.
Página 212 - He could not help expressing some surprise at the appearance of refinement in the conversation of the latter, much beyond what her situation seemed likely to confer. Her father accounted for it. She had received her education in the...
Página 154 - Expectancy and Rose of the fair State, ' The Glass of Fashion, and the Mold of Form, 4 Th' observ'd of all Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress, and to perplex his conduct.