The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... humble sweets contents her industry . COWLEY . THE following letters have in them reflections which will seem of importance both to the learned world and to domestic life . There is in the first an allegory so well carried on , that it ...
... humble sweets contents her industry . COWLEY . THE following letters have in them reflections which will seem of importance both to the learned world and to domestic life . There is in the first an allegory so well carried on , that it ...
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... humble servant . ' P. S. I must do the poor girl the justice to let you know , that this match was none of her own choosing ( or indeed of mine either ) ; in considera- tion of which I avoid giving her the least provoca- tion ; and ...
... humble servant . ' P. S. I must do the poor girl the justice to let you know , that this match was none of her own choosing ( or indeed of mine either ) ; in considera- tion of which I avoid giving her the least provoca- tion ; and ...
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... myself saw an elephant , in Bartholomew fair , kneel down to take on his back the ingenious Mr. William Penkethman . to say , T : Your most humble servant . ' No. 456. WEDNESDAY , AUG . 13 , 1712 . SPECTATOR . No. 455 .
... myself saw an elephant , in Bartholomew fair , kneel down to take on his back the ingenious Mr. William Penkethman . to say , T : Your most humble servant . ' No. 456. WEDNESDAY , AUG . 13 , 1712 . SPECTATOR . No. 455 .
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... humble servant . ' This was answered by a condescension that did not , by long impertinent professions of kindness , insult his distress , but was as follows : 6 DEAR TOM , I AM very glad to hear that you have heart enough to begin the ...
... humble servant . ' This was answered by a condescension that did not , by long impertinent professions of kindness , insult his distress , but was as follows : 6 DEAR TOM , I AM very glad to hear that you have heart enough to begin the ...
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... humble servant . ' No. 457. THURSDAY , AUGUST 14 , 1712 . -Multa et præclara minantis . HOR . 2 Sat. iii . 9 . Seeming to promise something wondrous great . I SHALL this day lay before my readers a letter written by the same hand with ...
... humble servant . ' No. 457. THURSDAY , AUGUST 14 , 1712 . -Multa et præclara minantis . HOR . 2 Sat. iii . 9 . Seeming to promise something wondrous great . I SHALL this day lay before my readers a letter written by the same hand with ...
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Página 99 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 64 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 63 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 70 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole...
Página 174 - We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason, and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Página 71 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Página 12 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 294 - WHEN rising from the bed of death, O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, I see my Maker, face to face, O how shall I appear!
Página 182 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 84 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.