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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... creatures ) should not only warm , but beget . Love in another place cooks Pleasure at his fire . Sometimes the poet's heart is frozen in every breast , and sometimes scorch- ed in every eye . Sometimes he is drowned in tears , and ...
... creatures ) should not only warm , but beget . Love in another place cooks Pleasure at his fire . Sometimes the poet's heart is frozen in every breast , and sometimes scorch- ed in every eye . Sometimes he is drowned in tears , and ...
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... creature it is . She comes to my hands just as nature left her , half finished , and without * How could it be otherwise , when the author of this play was Sir George Etheridge , and the character of Dorimant that of Wilmot , Earl of ...
... creature it is . She comes to my hands just as nature left her , half finished , and without * How could it be otherwise , when the author of this play was Sir George Etheridge , and the character of Dorimant that of Wilmot , Earl of ...
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... creatures ; and whatever falls in with it , will meet with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions . Mo- liere , as we are told by Monsieur Boileau , used to read all his comedies to an old woman who was his house ...
... creatures ; and whatever falls in with it , will meet with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions . Mo- liere , as we are told by Monsieur Boileau , used to read all his comedies to an old woman who was his house ...
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... CREATURE , ' CAN you then neglect him who has forgot all his recreations and enjoyments , to pine away his life in thinking of you ? When I do so , you appear more amiable to me than Venus does in the most beautiful description that ...
... CREATURE , ' CAN you then neglect him who has forgot all his recreations and enjoyments , to pine away his life in thinking of you ? When I do so , you appear more amiable to me than Venus does in the most beautiful description that ...
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... creature like man , who is sensible of so many weaknesses and im- perfections , should be actuated by a love of fame : that vice and ignorance , imperfection and misery , should contend for praise , and endeavour as much as possible to ...
... creature like man , who is sensible of so many weaknesses and im- perfections , should be actuated by a love of fame : that vice and ignorance , imperfection and misery , should contend for praise , and endeavour as much as possible to ...
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Page 235 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Page 282 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world : if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public...
Page 233 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean...
Page 236 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Page 237 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother.
Page 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 138 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Page 213 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction.
Page 212 - Roger, found me out this gentleman who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is.
Page 212 - Greek at his own table ; for which reason, he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.