The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... writings of a prelate ; and know a friend of mine , who , for these several years , has converted the essays of a man of quality into a kind of fringe for his candlesticks . I remember in particular , after having read over a poem of an ...
... writings of a prelate ; and know a friend of mine , who , for these several years , has converted the essays of a man of quality into a kind of fringe for his candlesticks . I remember in particular , after having read over a poem of an ...
Side 25
... writing , with my natural aversion to loquacity , give me a good deal of em- ployment when I enter any house in the country ; for I cannot for my heart leave a room , before I have thoroughly studied the walls of it , and examined the ...
... writing , with my natural aversion to loquacity , give me a good deal of em- ployment when I enter any house in the country ; for I cannot for my heart leave a room , before I have thoroughly studied the walls of it , and examined the ...
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... writings . I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former . Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general , we are wishing every period of it at an end . The ...
... writings . I often consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former . Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general , we are wishing every period of it at an end . The ...
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... writing and looking as it were another way , like an easy writer , or a sonnetteer . He was one of those that had too much wit to know how to live in the world ; he was a man of no justice , but great good - manners ; he ruined every ...
... writing and looking as it were another way , like an easy writer , or a sonnetteer . He was one of those that had too much wit to know how to live in the world ; he was a man of no justice , but great good - manners ; he ruined every ...
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... writing philosopher enough to conclude with Mr. Cowley , If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great ; Continue , Heav'n , still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love . T. N ° 115 ...
... writing philosopher enough to conclude with Mr. Cowley , If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great ; Continue , Heav'n , still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love . T. N ° 115 ...
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Side 360 - ... human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Side 357 - What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Side 356 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Side 120 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Side 120 - I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a law-suit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Side 161 - So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Side 357 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, ' Cast thy eyes eastward,' said he, 'and tell me what thou seest.' 'I See,' said I, ' a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Side 192 - ... could not forbear discovering greater expressions of mirth than ordinary upon the appearance of this monstrous face, under which, notwithstanding it was made to frown and stare in a most extraordinary manner, I could still discover a distant resemblance of my old friend. Sir Roger, upon seeing me laugh/ desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise. I at first kept my usual silence; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not...
Side 358 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud hut many of...
Side 143 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book : and at the same time employed an itinerant...