The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... father's land to die , it is a comely thing . As , indeed , I meddle not with the high matters of politics I shall only add , that it is to be hoped that there are very few who consult Shuttleworth's Dic- tionary . Since I have been ...
... father's land to die , it is a comely thing . As , indeed , I meddle not with the high matters of politics I shall only add , that it is to be hoped that there are very few who consult Shuttleworth's Dic- tionary . Since I have been ...
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... father , if common fame lie not , stept aside with the Duke of Buckingham , when he attended Charles II . into Scotland . In this state of uncertainty things remain for a week or two , when fresh intelligence is communi- cated to the ...
... father , if common fame lie not , stept aside with the Duke of Buckingham , when he attended Charles II . into Scotland . In this state of uncertainty things remain for a week or two , when fresh intelligence is communi- cated to the ...
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... sort of interlude , which ladies could bear without uneasiness ; and , at any rate , as it was an equal chance that their future husbands would give such dinners , and receive such guests , as their father N ° 76 : II THE MIRROR .
... sort of interlude , which ladies could bear without uneasiness ; and , at any rate , as it was an equal chance that their future husbands would give such dinners , and receive such guests , as their father N ° 76 : II THE MIRROR .
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Alexander Chalmers. dinners , and receive such guests , as their father did , it might not be improper to accustom them , in their earlier days , to a species of conversation and beha- viour which they must afterwards be obliged to ...
Alexander Chalmers. dinners , and receive such guests , as their father did , it might not be improper to accustom them , in their earlier days , to a species of conversation and beha- viour which they must afterwards be obliged to ...
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... father's debts ; but this , we are assured , is without foundation , ' In the action lately brought by E. L. a pauper , against her son - in - law Lord- for an alimony , several eminent counsel being applied to in behalf of the 24 N ...
... father's debts ; but this , we are assured , is without foundation , ' In the action lately brought by E. L. a pauper , against her son - in - law Lord- for an alimony , several eminent counsel being applied to in behalf of the 24 N ...
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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 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...
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 158 - ... indeed, it exhibits some temporary marks of a real disorder. His mind, subject from Nature to all the weakness of sensibility, agitated by the incidental misfortune of Ophelia's death, amidst the dark and permanent impression of his revenge, is thrown for a while off its poise, and, in the paroxysm of the moment, breaks forth into that extravagant rhapsody which he utters to Laertes.
Página 27 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 217 - ... of Louisa nourished those feelings of tenderness and attachment. She never mentioned her wrongs in words : sometimes a few starting tears would speak them ; and when time had given her a little more composure, her lute discoursed melancholy music. On their arrival in England, Sir Edward carried Louisa to his seat in the country. There she was treated with all the observance of a wife ; and had she chosen it, might have commanded more than the ordinary splendour of one.
Página 217 - His daughter felt this with anguish the moft poignant, and her affliction, for a while, refused consolation. Sir 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 163 - In these the poet, the novel writer, and the essayist, have always delighted; you are not, therefore, singular, for having dedicated so much of the MIRROR to sentiment and sensibility. I imagine, however, Sir, there is much danger in pushing these qualities too far: the rules of our conduct should be founded on a basis more...
Página 216 - Edward felt strongly the power of her beauty and of her grief. His heart was not made for that part which, it is probable, he thought it could have performed : it was still subject to remorse, to compassion, and to love.