The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... matter with me , but I am no more delighted with it than I was at the very first . I have advised with her rela- tions about her , and they all tell me that her mother and her grandmother before her were both taken much after the same ...
... matter with me , but I am no more delighted with it than I was at the very first . I have advised with her rela- tions about her , and they all tell me that her mother and her grandmother before her were both taken much after the same ...
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... matter so high , as to intimate that the li- berties of England have been at the mercy of a prince merely as he was of this pleasant character . Mr. SPECTATOR , THERE is no one passion which all man- kind so naturally give into as pride ...
... matter so high , as to intimate that the li- berties of England have been at the mercy of a prince merely as he was of this pleasant character . Mr. SPECTATOR , THERE is no one passion which all man- kind so naturally give into as pride ...
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... matter . Poverty on this occasion pleads her cause very notably , and repre- sents to her old landlord , that , should she be driven out of the country , all their trades , arts , and sciences , would be driven out with her ; and that ...
... matter . Poverty on this occasion pleads her cause very notably , and repre- sents to her old landlord , that , should she be driven out of the country , all their trades , arts , and sciences , would be driven out with her ; and that ...
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... matter for an ode , the reader may see it wrought into the following one . I. " The spacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky , And splangled heavens , a shining frame , Their great Original proclaim : Th'unwearied sun ...
... matter for an ode , the reader may see it wrought into the following one . I. " The spacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky , And splangled heavens , a shining frame , Their great Original proclaim : Th'unwearied sun ...
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... matter in a very plain and advantageous light ; and I am convinced from it , that if the art was under pro- per regulations , it would be a mechanic way of im- planting insensibly , in minds not capable of receiving it so well by any ...
... matter in a very plain and advantageous light ; and I am convinced from it , that if the art was under pro- per regulations , it would be a mechanic way of im- planting insensibly , in minds not capable of receiving it so well by any ...
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Página 84 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 90 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Página 167 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Página 49 - 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 166 - 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 158 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Página 158 - ... 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 56 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Página 56 - 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...
Página 89 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.