The British Essayists;: LoungerJ. 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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... better of ; and even saw a specious pretence , in various instances , for holding them out as so many perfections . No wonder she turned fond of a system in which she learned that VOL . XXXVII . D No 55 . 25 THE LOUNGER .
... better of ; and even saw a specious pretence , in various instances , for holding them out as so many perfections . No wonder she turned fond of a system in which she learned that VOL . XXXVII . D No 55 . 25 THE LOUNGER .
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Alexander Chalmers. turned fond of a system in which she learned that the quickness of her temper was not a vice , as some would have her to believe , but at worst a pardonable , or rather amiable weakness , naturally attendant ( as some ...
Alexander Chalmers. turned fond of a system in which she learned that the quickness of her temper was not a vice , as some would have her to believe , but at worst a pardonable , or rather amiable weakness , naturally attendant ( as some ...
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... learned may perhaps think themselves above it ; the vulgar , those who are employed in the servile offices of life , are below it . But as long as I can give one half - hour's amusement , mixed perhaps with a little instruction , to ...
... learned may perhaps think themselves above it ; the vulgar , those who are employed in the servile offices of life , are below it . But as long as I can give one half - hour's amusement , mixed perhaps with a little instruction , to ...
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... learned gentleman , in whose fa- mily , by his and his wife's pressing invitation , I have lived ever since his marriage ; and for several years no set of people could be happier . But of Íate my brother - in - law has become a ...
... learned gentleman , in whose fa- mily , by his and his wife's pressing invitation , I have lived ever since his marriage ; and for several years no set of people could be happier . But of Íate my brother - in - law has become a ...
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... learned there is a small party of your friends , which , by following the river's track till dusk , and then striking over the shoulder of the hill , you may join without much danger of discovery .'- I felt the disgrace of owing so much ...
... learned there is a small party of your friends , which , by following the river's track till dusk , and then striking over the shoulder of the hill , you may join without much danger of discovery .'- I felt the disgrace of owing so much ...
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الصفحة 285 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent Lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
الصفحة 283 - When youthful love, warm-blushing, strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame.
الصفحة 286 - The power of genius is not less admirable in tracing the manners than in painting the passions, or in drawing the scenery of nature. That intuitive glance with which a writer like...
الصفحة 257 - And through their lucid veil his softened force Shed o'er the peaceful world. Then is the time, For those whom wisdom and whom Nature charm, To steal themselves from the degenerate crowd, And soar above this little scene of things; To tread...
الصفحة 282 - In mentioning the circumstance of his humble station, I mean not to rest his pretensions solely on that title, or to urge the merits of his poetry when considered in relation to the lowness of his birth, and the little opportunity of improvement which his education could afford. These particulars, indeed, might excite our wonder at his productions ; but his poetry, considered abstractedly, and without the apologies arising from his situation, seems to me fully entitled to 207 command our feelings,...
الصفحة 284 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
الصفحة 303 - ... worldly wisdom inculcate on the young, or at least among those sober truths which experience often pretends to have acquired, is that danger which is said to result from the pursuit of letters and of science, in men destined for the labours of business, for the active exertions of professional life.
الصفحة 304 - From this tyranny, as youth conceives it, of attention and of labour, relief is commonly sought from some favorite avocation or amusement, for which a young man either finds or steals a portion of his time, either patiently plods through his task, in expectation of its approach, or anticipates its arrival by deserting his work before the legal period for amusement is arrived. It may fairly be questioned, -whether the most innocent of those amusements, is either so honourable or so safe as the avocation...
الصفحة 308 - ... are unavoidably diminished. Unfit for the bustle of affairs and the amusements of his youth, an old man, if he has no source of mental exertion or employment, often settles into the gloom of melancholy and peevishness, or petrifies his feelings by habitual intoxication. From an old man, whose gratifications were solely derived from those sensual appetites...
الصفحة 220 - This old butler (I call him by his title of honour, though in truth he had many subordinate offices) had originally enlisted with her husband, who went into the army a youth, though he afterwards married and became a country gentleman, had been his servant abroad, and attended him during his last illness at home. His best hat, which he wore a-Sundays, with a scarlet waistcoat of his master's, had still a cockade in it.