The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volúmenes33-34T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... whole length portrait of Captain KEPPEL which placed him at the head of his profession . Mr. REYNOLDS occupied no intermediate station : he rose at once to be the first among the English artists , and not only became the first , but ...
... whole length portrait of Captain KEPPEL which placed him at the head of his profession . Mr. REYNOLDS occupied no intermediate station : he rose at once to be the first among the English artists , and not only became the first , but ...
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... whole field of life before them , untrodden and unsurveyed ; characters of every kind shot up in their way , and those of the most luxuriant growth , or most conspicuous colours , were naturally cropped by the first sickle . They that ...
... whole field of life before them , untrodden and unsurveyed ; characters of every kind shot up in their way , and those of the most luxuriant growth , or most conspicuous colours , were naturally cropped by the first sickle . They that ...
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... whole earth will at last become a sandy desert . I would not advise my readers to disturb them- selves by contriving how they shall live without light and water . For the days of universal thirst and per- petual darkness are at a great ...
... whole earth will at last become a sandy desert . I would not advise my readers to disturb them- selves by contriving how they shall live without light and water . For the days of universal thirst and per- petual darkness are at a great ...
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... whole week with joy , anxiety , and conjecture . We know that a French ship of war was lately taken by a ship of England ; but this event was suf- fered to burst upon us all at once , and then what we knew already was echoed from day to ...
... whole week with joy , anxiety , and conjecture . We know that a French ship of war was lately taken by a ship of England ; but this event was suf- fered to burst upon us all at once , and then what we knew already was echoed from day to ...
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... whole animal composition ? These were some of the placid blessings I pro- mised myself the enjoyment of , when I committed violence upon myself by mustering up all my strength to set about reading you ; but I am disappointed in them all ...
... whole animal composition ? These were some of the placid blessings I pro- mised myself the enjoyment of , when I committed violence upon myself by mustering up all my strength to set about reading you ; but I am disappointed in them all ...
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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...