The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Side 27
... readers , who are pleased with wandering over a number of books almost at the same instant , or , if confined to one ... reader ; if for the last , he ought to observe how some com- mon words are started into a new signification , how ...
... readers , who are pleased with wandering over a number of books almost at the same instant , or , if confined to one ... reader ; if for the last , he ought to observe how some com- mon words are started into a new signification , how ...
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... readers not only eludes their memory , but betrays their apprehen- sion , when the turn of thought and expression ... reader , even in the very profession to which he applies himself . For to reason with strength , and express himself ...
... readers not only eludes their memory , but betrays their apprehen- sion , when the turn of thought and expression ... reader , even in the very profession to which he applies himself . For to reason with strength , and express himself ...
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... the finger , would whirl round , and present the reader at once with a delicious view of its full furniture . Thrice a day did I change , not only the books , but the lan- guages ; and had used my eye to such a D 3 60 . 29 THE GUARDIAN .
... the finger , would whirl round , and present the reader at once with a delicious view of its full furniture . Thrice a day did I change , not only the books , but the lan- guages ; and had used my eye to such a D 3 60 . 29 THE GUARDIAN .
Side 54
... readers ought to be instructed how to admire ; among others , I am charmed with his artificial expressions in well adapted similes : there is no part of writing in which it is more diffi- cult to succeed ; for , on sublime occasions ...
... readers ought to be instructed how to admire ; among others , I am charmed with his artificial expressions in well adapted similes : there is no part of writing in which it is more diffi- cult to succeed ; for , on sublime occasions ...
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... reader without further preface . SIR , TO THE GUARDIA N. There is a set of mankind , who are wholly em- ployed in the ill - natured office of gathering up a collection of stories that lessen the reputation of others , and spreading them ...
... reader without further preface . SIR , TO THE GUARDIA N. There is a set of mankind , who are wholly em- ployed in the ill - natured office of gathering up a collection of stories that lessen the reputation of others , and spreading them ...
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Side 169 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Side 169 - He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Side 262 - LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Side 157 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Side 160 - I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Side 171 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th...
Side 158 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Side 262 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour : so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
Side 127 - They have already laid down many mechanical rules for compositions of this sort, but at the same time they cut off almost all undertakers from the possibility of ever performing them ; for the first qualification they unanimously require in a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay without learning or much reading.
Side 172 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough : he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs. A spider is no ill emblem of him. He has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.