The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volúmenes33-34T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... seen essays for which a very large price is paid , transferred with the most shame- less rapacity , into the weekly or monthly com- pilations , and their right , at least for the pre- sent , alienated from them , before they could ...
... seen essays for which a very large price is paid , transferred with the most shame- less rapacity , into the weekly or monthly com- pilations , and their right , at least for the pre- sent , alienated from them , before they could ...
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... seen , invites them up stairs , or retires with them to the back window . I rejoiced at the increasing prosperity of my friend , and imagined , that as he grew rich , he was growing happy . His mind has partaken the enlarge- ment of his ...
... seen , invites them up stairs , or retires with them to the back window . I rejoiced at the increasing prosperity of my friend , and imagined , that as he grew rich , he was growing happy . His mind has partaken the enlarge- ment of his ...
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... seen , with great in- dignation , their attempts baffled , and their force de- fied by an enemy , whom they considered themselves as entitled to conquer by the right of prescription , and whom many ages of hereditary superiority had ...
... seen , with great in- dignation , their attempts baffled , and their force de- fied by an enemy , whom they considered themselves as entitled to conquer by the right of prescription , and whom many ages of hereditary superiority had ...
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... seen an admiral beheaded for not having done what he had not power to do , durst not leave the place unassaulted . An Englishman has no ardour for honour , nor zeal for duty ; he neither values glory nor loves his king , but balances ...
... seen an admiral beheaded for not having done what he had not power to do , durst not leave the place unassaulted . An Englishman has no ardour for honour , nor zeal for duty ; he neither values glory nor loves his king , but balances ...
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... seen before , and return . I sit down and persuade myself that I sit down to think , find it impossible to think without a subject , rise up to inquire after news , and endeavour to kindle in myself an artificial impatience for ...
... seen before , and return . I sit down and persuade myself that I sit down to think , find it impossible to think without a subject , rise up to inquire after news , and endeavour to kindle in myself an artificial impatience for ...
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Página 239 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 114 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Página 262 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 115 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Página 63 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Página 62 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course!
Página 62 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Página 250 - 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.
Página 208 - His gouvernante joined the old man and his daughter in the prayers and thanksgivings which they put up on his recovery ; for she, too, was a heretic, in the phrase of the village. The philosopher walked out with his long staff and his dog, and left them to their prayers and thanksgivings. " My master," said the old woman, — " alas ! he is not a Christian ; but he is the best of unbelievers.
Página 183 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...