The Observer, Volumen3J. Richardson [and 12 others], 1822 |
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Página 93 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Página 152 - It is certain no literal translation can be just to an excellent original in a superior language ; but it is a great mistake to imagine as many have done, that a rash paraphrase can make amends for this general defect ; which is no less in danger to lose the spirit of an ancient, by deviating into the modern manners of expression.
Página 234 - ... is an accident of fortune. MEL. No, marriage is rather like a game at bowls: fortune indeed makes the match, and the two nearest, and sometimes the two farthest, are together, but the game depends entirely upon judgment.
Página 159 - Hill, Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Página 287 - Oh woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you ! Angels are painted fair to look like you : There's in you all, that we believe of" heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Página 319 - Nay, my good friend, but hear me ! I confess Man is the child of sorrow, and this world, In which we breathe, hath cares enough to plague us, But it hath means withal to soothe these cares, And he, who meditates on...
Página 334 - Twere wise to let none share in the possession ; But if whatever you have is held of fortune, And not of right inherent, why, my father, Why with such niggard jealousy engross What the next hour may ravish from your grasp, And cast into some worthless favourite's lap? Snatch then the swift occasion while 'tis...
Página 296 - Will you sit down to supper ? I'm your guest, Your very Fly, to enter without bidding : Would you move off? You'll move a well as soon : I'm for all work, and though the job were stabbing, Betraying...
Página 55 - Surely we should guard our passions as we would any other combustibles, and not spread open the inflammable magazine to catch the first spark that may blow it and ourselves into the air. Tom Tinder is one of these touchy blockheads, whom nobody can endure : the fellow has not a single plea in life for his ill temper; he does not want money, is not married, has a great deal of health to spare, and never once felt the slightest twinge of the' gout. . His eyes no sooner open to the morning light than...
Página 143 - ... first business to contrive a plan and groundwork for the structure of his poem : he saw that it must have uniformity, simplicity, and order, a beginning, a middle, and an end; that the main object must be interesting and important, that the incidents and accessary parts must hinge upon that object, and not wander from the central idea, on which the whole ought to rest; that a subject corresponding thereto, when elevated by language, superior to the phrase and dialogue of the vulgar, would constitute...