The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... less instructive . a word , sir , I would have you turn your thoughts to the advantage of such as want you most ; and shew that simplicity , innocence , industry , and tem- perance , are arts which lead to tranquillity , as much as ...
... less instructive . a word , sir , I would have you turn your thoughts to the advantage of such as want you most ; and shew that simplicity , innocence , industry , and tem- perance , are arts which lead to tranquillity , as much as ...
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... less effect on our external mien and behaviour , make so deep an impression on the mind , as is very apt to bend it wholly one way . The mathematician will take little less than de- monstration in the most common discourse , and the ...
... less effect on our external mien and behaviour , make so deep an impression on the mind , as is very apt to bend it wholly one way . The mathematician will take little less than de- monstration in the most common discourse , and the ...
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... less envy from the whole company , than if he chooses the part of mode- rator , without engaging directly on either side in a dispute . This gives him the character of impartial , furnishes him with an opportunity of sifting things to ...
... less envy from the whole company , than if he chooses the part of mode- rator , without engaging directly on either side in a dispute . This gives him the character of impartial , furnishes him with an opportunity of sifting things to ...
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... less to be ad- mired than their industry and vigilance . There is a fragment of Apollodorus the comic poet ( who was contemporary with Menander ) which is full of hu- mour , as follows : Thou mayest shut up thy doors , ' says he , with ...
... less to be ad- mired than their industry and vigilance . There is a fragment of Apollodorus the comic poet ( who was contemporary with Menander ) which is full of hu- mour , as follows : Thou mayest shut up thy doors , ' says he , with ...
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... less successful than the Lacedemonians , who fell so short of them in these particulars ? To this , says he , the oracle made the following reply : ' I am bet ter pleased with the prayers of the Lacedemonians than with 62 No 207 ...
... less successful than the Lacedemonians , who fell so short of them in these particulars ? To this , says he , the oracle made the following reply : ' I am bet ter pleased with the prayers of the Lacedemonians than with 62 No 207 ...
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Página 275 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 256 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 274 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 273 - It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us, but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
Página 98 - ... the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.
Página 101 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...
Página 3 - ... till such time as he should sweat ; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic.
Página 131 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 148 - Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away, yet she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her. She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.
Página 256 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...