The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Bind 5 |
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Side 10
... desires by stinting his strength , and con-- tracting his capacities . - The pleasure of the re- ligious man is an easy and a portable pleasure , such an one as he carries about in his bosom , without alarming either the eye or the envy ...
... desires by stinting his strength , and con-- tracting his capacities . - The pleasure of the re- ligious man is an easy and a portable pleasure , such an one as he carries about in his bosom , without alarming either the eye or the envy ...
Side 17
... desire you would tell , your own way , the following instance of heroic love in the city . You are to remember , that somewhere in your writings , for enlarging the territories of virtue and honour , you have multiplied the ...
... desire you would tell , your own way , the following instance of heroic love in the city . You are to remember , that somewhere in your writings , for enlarging the territories of virtue and honour , you have multiplied the ...
Side 21
... desire to be excused , if I keep to myself ; but so it is , that I have walked by it for the better part of a century to my safety at least , if not to my advantage ; and have among my papers a register of all the changes , that have ...
... desire to be excused , if I keep to myself ; but so it is , that I have walked by it for the better part of a century to my safety at least , if not to my advantage ; and have among my papers a register of all the changes , that have ...
Side 34
... desire of gadding pos- sessed you this morning , we had still been happy ; . but your cursed vanity and opinion of your own con- duct , which is certainly very wavering when it seeks occasions of being proved , has ruined both yourself ...
... desire of gadding pos- sessed you this morning , we had still been happy ; . but your cursed vanity and opinion of your own con- duct , which is certainly very wavering when it seeks occasions of being proved , has ruined both yourself ...
Side 54
... desire your friend- ship and assistance in the disposal of those many rarities and curiosities which lie upon my hands . If you know any one that has an occasion for a parcel of dried spiders , I will sell them a penny- worth . I could ...
... desire your friend- ship and assistance in the disposal of those many rarities and curiosities which lie upon my hands . If you know any one that has an occasion for a parcel of dried spiders , I will sell them a penny- worth . I could ...
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Side 123 - In search of whom they sought : Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Side 94 - ... invented by some pretty fellows, such as Banter, Bamboozle, Country Put, and Kidney, as it is there applied; some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of Mobb and Banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Side 284 - ... mask. I shall not carry my humility so far as to call myself a vicious man; but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstaff has done with a freedom of spirit that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.
Side 31 - My eldest son, John, having spoken disrespectfully of his little sister whom I keep by me in spirits of wine, and in many other instances behaved himself undutifully towards me, I do disinherit, and wholly cut off from any part of this my personal estate, by giving him a single cockle-shell.
Side 94 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words, as well as men. The war has introduced abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns. Speculations...
Side 51 - Thus that facetious divine, Dr. Fuller, speaking of the town of Banbury, near a hundred years ago, tells us, it was a place famous for cakes and zeal, which I find by my glass is true to this day, as to the latter part of this description ; though I must confess, it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author...
Side 41 - He then showed me what he thought the finest of his tulips; which I found received all their value from their rarity and oddness, and put me in mind of your great fortunes, which are not always the greatest beauties.
Side 93 - This letter is in every point an admirable pattern of the present polite way of writing ; nor is it of less authority for being an epistle. You may gather every flower...
Side 203 - At about half a mile's distance from our cabin, we heard the groanings of a bear, which at first startled us ; but upon inquiry we were informed by some of our company that he was dead, and now lay in salt, having been killed upon that very spot about a fortnight before in the time of the frost . Not far from the same place we were likewise entertained with some posthumous snarls and barkings of a fox. ' We at length arrived at the little Dutch settlement, and upon entering the room, found it filled...
Side 69 - If the doctor had called them his Carminative Pills, he had been as cleanly as any one could have wished; but the second word entirely destroys the decency of the first. There are other absurdities of this nature so very gross, that I dare not mention them ; and shall therefore dismiss this subject with a public admonition to Michael Parrot, That he do not presume any more to mention a certain worm he knows of, which, by the way, has grown seven foot in my memory ; for, if I am.