The British Essayists;: TatlerJ. 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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Side 17
... seem to allow . " To give you an opportunity of making us some reparation , I desire you would tell , your own way , the following instance of heroic love in the city . You are to remember , that somewhere in your writ- ings , for ...
... seem to allow . " To give you an opportunity of making us some reparation , I desire you would tell , your own way , the following instance of heroic love in the city . You are to remember , that somewhere in your writ- ings , for ...
Side 20
... seems to be the want of warning upon any approaching change or revolution ; so that they are obliged in a hurry to tack about with every wind , and stop short in the midst of a full career , to the great surprize and derision of their ...
... seems to be the want of warning upon any approaching change or revolution ; so that they are obliged in a hurry to tack about with every wind , and stop short in the midst of a full career , to the great surprize and derision of their ...
Side 40
... seems was but another kind of Fool's Coat . I had the same fate with two or three more ; for which reason I desired the owner of the garden to let me know which were the finest of the flowers ; for that I was so unskilful in the art ...
... seems was but another kind of Fool's Coat . I had the same fate with two or three more ; for which reason I desired the owner of the garden to let me know which were the finest of the flowers ; for that I was so unskilful in the art ...
Side 49
... seems to be of the same nature as the water mentioned by Quintus Curtius , which , says the historian , could be contained in nothing but in the hoof , or , as the Oxford manuscript has it , in the scull of an ass . The Thermometer is ...
... seems to be of the same nature as the water mentioned by Quintus Curtius , which , says the historian , could be contained in nothing but in the hoof , or , as the Oxford manuscript has it , in the scull of an ass . The Thermometer is ...
Side 51
... seem to influence any ensuing elections . The point of doctrine which I would propagate by this my invention , is the same which was long ago advanced by that able teacher Horace , out of whom I have taken my text for this discourse ...
... seem to influence any ensuing elections . The point of doctrine which I would propagate by this my invention , is the same which was long ago advanced by that able teacher Horace , out of whom I have taken my text for this discourse ...
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Side 38 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Side 250 - Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song Of birds on every bough; so much the more His wonder was to find...
Side 94 - ... 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 123 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise, At least, distemper'd, discontented thoughts, Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires, Blown up with high conceits engendering pride.
Side 200 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Side 128 - Not yet the dust had shunn'd th' unequal strife, But aided by the wind, fought still for life ; And, wafted with its foe by violent gust, 'Twas doubtful which was rain, and which was dust.
Side 123 - 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 181 - I shall only repeat two adventures, as being very extraordinary, and neither of them having ever happened to me above once in my life. The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me,
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 179 - I found was very extravagant, gave great demonstrations of joy at the receiving of the will : but opening it, he found himself disinherited and cut off from the possession of a fair estate, by virtue of my being made a present to him. This put him into such a passion, that after having taken me in his hand, and cursed me, he squirred me away from him as far as he could fling me.