The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Side 19
... thou comest into the country , and Nanny my fat doe shall bleed when we have thee at Hawthorn - hall . Pr'ythee do not keep staring at gilt coaches , and stealing necklaces and trinkets from people with thy looks . Take my word for it ...
... thou comest into the country , and Nanny my fat doe shall bleed when we have thee at Hawthorn - hall . Pr'ythee do not keep staring at gilt coaches , and stealing necklaces and trinkets from people with thy looks . Take my word for it ...
Side 20
... thou canst get by fine sights at London , which I will engage thou mayst put in the shine * of thine eye . I am , Old Iron , thine to command , NIC . HAWTHORN . The third is from a lady who is going to ruin her family by coaches and ...
... thou canst get by fine sights at London , which I will engage thou mayst put in the shine * of thine eye . I am , Old Iron , thine to command , NIC . HAWTHORN . The third is from a lady who is going to ruin her family by coaches and ...
Side 37
... thou hope The promise of the year , a plenteous crop , When thou destroy'st thy lab'ring steer , who till'd , And plough'd with pains , thy else ungrateful field ; From his yet reeking neck to draw the yoke , That neck , with which the ...
... thou hope The promise of the year , a plenteous crop , When thou destroy'st thy lab'ring steer , who till'd , And plough'd with pains , thy else ungrateful field ; From his yet reeking neck to draw the yoke , That neck , with which the ...
Side 38
... thou shalt find a bird's nest in the way , thou shalt not take the dam with the young : But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go , that it may be well with thee , and that thou may'st prolong thy days . ' To conclude , there is ...
... thou shalt find a bird's nest in the way , thou shalt not take the dam with the young : But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go , that it may be well with thee , and that thou may'st prolong thy days . ' To conclude , there is ...
Side 78
... Thou art far from every * one of us . Thou art present to us more than any object which we touch with our hands ; but our senses , and the passions which they produce in us , turn our attention from Thee . Thy light shines in the midst ...
... Thou art far from every * one of us . Thou art present to us more than any object which we touch with our hands ; but our senses , and the passions which they produce in us , turn our attention from Thee . Thy light shines in the midst ...
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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.