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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... leave to allow myself no respite from labour . It is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world , and be of no character or signifi- cancy in it . To be ever unconcerned , and ever looking on new objects with an endless ...
... leave to allow myself no respite from labour . It is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world , and be of no character or signifi- cancy in it . To be ever unconcerned , and ever looking on new objects with an endless ...
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... leave of each other at the Dark- House , to go to bed before the day was too far spent . Chimney - sweepers passed by us as we made up to the market , and some raillery happened be- tween one of the fruit - wenches and the black men ...
... leave of each other at the Dark- House , to go to bed before the day was too far spent . Chimney - sweepers passed by us as we made up to the market , and some raillery happened be- tween one of the fruit - wenches and the black men ...
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... leaves before mentioned , and found almost as great a variety among them , as in the vegeta- ble world . I could easily observe the smooth shining Italian leaves , the nimble French aspen always in motion , the Greek and Latin ever ...
... leaves before mentioned , and found almost as great a variety among them , as in the vegeta- ble world . I could easily observe the smooth shining Italian leaves , the nimble French aspen always in motion , the Greek and Latin ever ...
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... leaves ; while others made it their business to collect , in volu- minous herbals , all the several leaves of some one tree . The flowers afford a most diverting en- tertainment , in a wonderful variety of figures , co- lours , and ...
... leaves ; while others made it their business to collect , in volu- minous herbals , all the several leaves of some one tree . The flowers afford a most diverting en- tertainment , in a wonderful variety of figures , co- lours , and ...
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... leave them to speak for them- selves . FOR THE SPECTATOR . ' MR . SPECTATOR , ' You very much promote the interests of virtue , while you reform the taste of a fa profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine po- ems ...
... leave them to speak for them- selves . FOR THE SPECTATOR . ' MR . SPECTATOR , ' You very much promote the interests of virtue , while you reform the taste of a fa profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine po- ems ...
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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.