The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volumer 33-34T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Side xiv
... Perhaps other men might have equal know- ledge , but few were so communicative . His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his won- derful powers . In mixed company , and fre- quently in ...
... Perhaps other men might have equal know- ledge , but few were so communicative . His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his won- derful powers . In mixed company , and fre- quently in ...
Side 2
... perhaps , no appellation by which a writer can better denote his kindred to the human species . It has been found hard to describe man by an ade- quate definition . Some philosophers have called him a reasonable animal ; but others have ...
... perhaps , no appellation by which a writer can better denote his kindred to the human species . It has been found hard to describe man by an ade- quate definition . Some philosophers have called him a reasonable animal ; but others have ...
Side 7
... perhaps only two are printed , will be promoted to the first rank of writers by those who are weary of the present race of wits , and wish to sink them into obscurity before the lustre of a name not yet known enough to be detested . No ...
... perhaps only two are printed , will be promoted to the first rank of writers by those who are weary of the present race of wits , and wish to sink them into obscurity before the lustre of a name not yet known enough to be detested . No ...
Side 17
... perhaps were defeated by women . If our Ame- rican general had headed an army of girls , he might I still have built a fort and taken it . Had Minorca been defended by a female garrison , it might have been surrendered , as it was ...
... perhaps were defeated by women . If our Ame- rican general had headed an army of girls , he might I still have built a fort and taken it . Had Minorca been defended by a female garrison , it might have been surrendered , as it was ...
Side 18
... perhaps , have been delighted with the simplicity of ancient gratitude ; or , if any thing was wanting to full satisfaction , she might have supplied the deficiency with the hope of deification , and anti- cipated the altars that would ...
... perhaps , have been delighted with the simplicity of ancient gratitude ; or , if any thing was wanting to full satisfaction , she might have supplied the deficiency with the hope of deification , and anti- cipated the altars that would ...
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Side 239 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Side 114 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Side 262 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Side 115 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Side 63 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Side 62 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course!
Side 62 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Side 250 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 208 - His gouvernante joined the old man and his daughter in the prayers and thanksgivings which they put up on his recovery ; for she, too, was a heretic, in the phrase of the village. The philosopher walked out with his long staff and his dog, and left them to their prayers and thanksgivings. " My master," said the old woman, — " alas ! he is not a Christian ; but he is the best of unbelievers.
Side 183 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...