The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... learned ! tell me by what word to speak a motion of the soul for which there is no name . When she kneels , and bids me be comforted , she is my child : when I take her in my arms , and bid her say no more , she is my very wife , and is ...
... learned ! tell me by what word to speak a motion of the soul for which there is no name . When she kneels , and bids me be comforted , she is my child : when I take her in my arms , and bid her say no more , she is my very wife , and is ...
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Lionel Thomas Berguer. myself with some observations which I have made upon the learned world , as to this great particular . By the learned world I here mean at large all those who are any way concerned in works of literature , whether ...
Lionel Thomas Berguer. myself with some observations which I have made upon the learned world , as to this great particular . By the learned world I here mean at large all those who are any way concerned in works of literature , whether ...
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... learned professions by the wisdom of our laws . I need not here take notice of the rank which is allotted to every doctor in each of these professions , who are all of them , though not so high as knights , yet a degree above squires ...
... learned professions by the wisdom of our laws . I need not here take notice of the rank which is allotted to every doctor in each of these professions , who are all of them , though not so high as knights , yet a degree above squires ...
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Lionel Thomas Berguer. There is another tribe of persons who are retainers to the learned world , and who regulate themselves upon all occasions by several laws peculiar to their body ; I mean the players or actors of both sexes . Among ...
Lionel Thomas Berguer. There is another tribe of persons who are retainers to the learned world , and who regulate themselves upon all occasions by several laws peculiar to their body ; I mean the players or actors of both sexes . Among ...
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... learned of his acquaintance for the true form and dimensions of the lepidum caput , and made a hat fit for it . ' Your said officer does farther represent , That the young divines about town are many of them got into the cock military ...
... learned of his acquaintance for the true form and dimensions of the lepidum caput , and made a hat fit for it . ' Your said officer does farther represent , That the young divines about town are many of them got into the cock military ...
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Side 118 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Side 117 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Side 12 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Side 197 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Side 118 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.
Side 113 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to 'small purpose yron wedges made; Those be unquiet thoughts, that carefull minds invade.
Side 118 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Side 202 - The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features: one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one.
Side 228 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Side 119 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?