The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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Side 12
... told the country he was born in , without either a set or a hidden manner , while it twists together the glory of the poet and his nation , so as to make the nation depend upon his for an increase of its own . " I will offer no more ...
... told the country he was born in , without either a set or a hidden manner , while it twists together the glory of the poet and his nation , so as to make the nation depend upon his for an increase of its own . " I will offer no more ...
Side 15
... ent was stripped ' of his possession ; another begged leave to acquaint his lordship that they had been ' saddled ' with costs . At last up got a grave sergeant 6 and told us his client had been hung up ' c 2 NO . 551 . 15 SPECTATOR .
... ent was stripped ' of his possession ; another begged leave to acquaint his lordship that they had been ' saddled ' with costs . At last up got a grave sergeant 6 and told us his client had been hung up ' c 2 NO . 551 . 15 SPECTATOR .
Side 16
and told us his client had been hung up ' a whole term by a writ of error . At this I could bear it no longer , but came hither , and resolved to apply my- self to your honour to interpose with these gentlemen , that they would leave ...
and told us his client had been hung up ' a whole term by a writ of error . At this I could bear it no longer , but came hither , and resolved to apply my- self to your honour to interpose with these gentlemen , that they would leave ...
Side 28
... told that his moral qualities were agreeable to his natural and intellectual endowments , and that he was of an honest and generous mind , adorned with great sweetness of manners . I might break off the account of him here , but I ...
... told that his moral qualities were agreeable to his natural and intellectual endowments , and that he was of an honest and generous mind , adorned with great sweetness of manners . I might break off the account of him here , but I ...
Side 33
... told him there was nothing I so ar- dently wished , as that we might some time or other publish a work , written by us both , which should bear the name of The Monument , in memory of our friendship . I heartily wish what I have done ...
... told him there was nothing I so ar- dently wished , as that we might some time or other publish a work , written by us both , which should bear the name of The Monument , in memory of our friendship . I heartily wish what I have done ...
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Side 340 - It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 340 - 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 134 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Side 156 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Side 188 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Side 81 - 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 198 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Side 102 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Side 33 - I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished The Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in memory of our friendship.
Side 122 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...