The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, المجلد 5C. Dilly, 1790 |
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الصفحة 38
... night ; and I muft fay this for my friend , that if there is any trust to be put in flesh and blood , he was a match for the beft fpirit that ever walked : fhe had all the fenfibility in life towards omens and prognoftics , and though I ...
... night ; and I muft fay this for my friend , that if there is any trust to be put in flesh and blood , he was a match for the beft fpirit that ever walked : fhe had all the fenfibility in life towards omens and prognoftics , and though I ...
الصفحة 56
... night , I thought it not amifs to throw in a remark in the way of confolation upon the fallacy of dreams in general . This was enough for him to turn over to the other fide and fupport the credit of dreams totis viribus : I now thought ...
... night , I thought it not amifs to throw in a remark in the way of confolation upon the fallacy of dreams in general . This was enough for him to turn over to the other fide and fupport the credit of dreams totis viribus : I now thought ...
الصفحة 63
... night , and early next morning was pre- sented by a fervant with the following billet- " The Grub - ftreet Garreteer finds himself no " longer fit company for the fagacious Mr. " William Simper ; therefore defires him without ❝lofs of ...
... night , and early next morning was pre- sented by a fervant with the following billet- " The Grub - ftreet Garreteer finds himself no " longer fit company for the fagacious Mr. " William Simper ; therefore defires him without ❝lofs of ...
الصفحة 68
... night in a chamber , " that is under an ill name . " " An ill name " for what ? " demanded the lady . " haunted , " anfwered the butler , " vifited by noises , and rattling of chains and " For being " for being apparitions ; the ...
... night in a chamber , " that is under an ill name . " " An ill name " for what ? " demanded the lady . " haunted , " anfwered the butler , " vifited by noises , and rattling of chains and " For being " for being apparitions ; the ...
الصفحة 69
... nights , I dare fay we shall hear " no more of it . Are you willing to under- " take it ? " I was afhamed to confefs my fears , and yet had no ftomach to the undertaking ; I was alfo afraid of giving umbrage to my aunt , and im preffing ...
... nights , I dare fay we shall hear " no more of it . Are you willing to under- " take it ? " I was afhamed to confefs my fears , and yet had no ftomach to the undertaking ; I was alfo afraid of giving umbrage to my aunt , and im preffing ...
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الصفحة 82 - Let her see him injured, but not provoked: Let her attend him to the tribunal, and consider the patience with which he endured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies. Lead her to his cross, and let her view him in the agony of death, and hear his last prayer for his persecutors...
الصفحة 82 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies; let her follow him to the Mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
الصفحة 141 - All are not just because they do no wrong, But he who will not wrong me when he may, He is the truly just.
الصفحة 188 - ... at the same time slipping his pincers from the screw he was forcing to the head, he caught a piece of flesh in the forceps and wrenched it out of his cheek, laughing at poor Nicolas, whilst he roared aloud with the pain, telling him it was a just reward for the torture he had put him to awhile ago, when he tugged at a tooth till he broke it in his jaw. ' Ah, for the love of heaven...
الصفحة 189 - ... his excellency the inquisidor general with six of his assessors, three on each side the chair of state : the alguazil mayor, a secretary and two notaries, with other officers of the holy council, were attending in their places. The prisoner was placed behind a bar at the foot of the table between the messengers who brought him in, and having made his obeisance to the awful presence in the most supplicating...
الصفحة 75 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
الصفحة 308 - ... motives for the experiment may be virtuous, but the effects of it will be fatal. I am now approaching to the conclusion of this my fourth volume,* and according to my present purpose, shall dismiss the Observers from any fur* This refers to the arrangement of the volumes when firM published.
الصفحة 266 - ... tis a volume of comedies ; he opens it at random ; 'tis all alike to him where he begins ; all our poets put together are not worth a halter; he stumbles by mere chance upon
الصفحة 82 - to your natural " religion ; lay before her Mahomet, and his difciples, arrayed "in armour and blood, riding in triumph over the fpoils of "thoufands who fell by his victorious fword. Shew her the " cities which he fet in flames, the countries which he ravaged " and deftroyed, and the miferable diftrefs of all the inhabitants " of the earth. When fhe has viewed him in this fcene, carry "her into his...
الصفحة 182 - Nicolas's conviction, as plain could be, that his road laid straight forward to the little convent in front ; the mule was of opinion, that the turning on the left down the hill towards the Prado was the road of all roads most familiar and agreeable to herself, and accordingly began to dispute the point of topography with Nicolas by fixing her...