The British Essayists: GuardianLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... piece . I am , venerable Nestor , Your friend and servant , P. N. ' I was a little surprised , having read some of your lion's roarings , that a creature of such eloquence should want a tongue ; but he has other qualifications which ...
... piece . I am , venerable Nestor , Your friend and servant , P. N. ' I was a little surprised , having read some of your lion's roarings , that a creature of such eloquence should want a tongue ; but he has other qualifications which ...
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... piece he writes is not foreign to that of his natural inclination . For it is a great step towards gaining upon the passions , that there is a delicacy in the choice of their object : and to turn the imagination towards a bride , rather ...
... piece he writes is not foreign to that of his natural inclination . For it is a great step towards gaining upon the passions , that there is a delicacy in the choice of their object : and to turn the imagination towards a bride , rather ...
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... piece ? It is ob- served , that this modesty - piece still sinks lower and lower ; and who knows where it will fix at last ? You must know , Sir , I am a Turkey merchant , and I lived several years in a country where the wo- men show ...
... piece ? It is ob- served , that this modesty - piece still sinks lower and lower ; and who knows where it will fix at last ? You must know , Sir , I am a Turkey merchant , and I lived several years in a country where the wo- men show ...
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... pieces the pedigree of her that wore it , and would lift up their eyes to heaven at the confidence of the saucy minx , when ... piece of Mecklin lace , but they examined her title to it . My aunt Martha used to N ° 137 . chide me very ...
... pieces the pedigree of her that wore it , and would lift up their eyes to heaven at the confidence of the saucy minx , when ... piece of Mecklin lace , but they examined her title to it . My aunt Martha used to N ° 137 . chide me very ...
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... piece of human nature , begged that threescore and ten years ( which he heard would be the age of man in David's time ) might be taken out of his own life , and added to that of David . Accordingly , say the rabbins , Adam falls short ...
... piece of human nature , begged that threescore and ten years ( which he heard would be the age of man in David's time ) might be taken out of his own life , and added to that of David . Accordingly , say the rabbins , Adam falls short ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 207 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Página 207 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed ; Her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 44 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Página 40 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time ; thence hurried back to, fire.
Página 175 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.
Página 71 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Página 38 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 207 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 71 - Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change. Bestirs her then, and from each tender stalk Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India East or West, or middle shore In Pontus or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reigned, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand.
Página 207 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.