The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلد 37 |
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... the Reward of public Merit , and and Criterion of National Success ... 83. Enquiry into the Causes of the Scarcity of humorous Writers in Scotland . Fage I 12 17 22 31 38 43 50 T No. 84. Of the Privilege of Fashion to alter.
... the Reward of public Merit , and and Criterion of National Success ... 83. Enquiry into the Causes of the Scarcity of humorous Writers in Scotland . Fage I 12 17 22 31 38 43 50 T No. 84. Of the Privilege of Fashion to alter.
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... cause of rejoicing Of that tongue I think no good ; it is repor amongst us , that the mass is written in it , the wh I renounce , and also abominate , & c . I am , your Honour's , to serve you at command , TIMOTHY SHUTTLEWOR P. S. ...
... cause of rejoicing Of that tongue I think no good ; it is repor amongst us , that the mass is written in it , the wh I renounce , and also abominate , & c . I am , your Honour's , to serve you at command , TIMOTHY SHUTTLEWOR P. S. ...
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... cause of so much uneasiness to him , they are taken from a Roman poet , but no Roman Catholic : in metre accommodated to the course of my friend's studies , they signify , That for our father's land to die , it is a comely thing . As ...
... cause of so much uneasiness to him , they are taken from a Roman poet , but no Roman Catholic : in metre accommodated to the course of my friend's studies , they signify , That for our father's land to die , it is a comely thing . As ...
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... cause , recollects having heard , that something of a like nature befel the family many years ago ; and that the grand - aunt of Mrs. Gadabout's father , if common fame lie not , stept aside with the Duke of Buckingham , when he ...
... cause , recollects having heard , that something of a like nature befel the family many years ago ; and that the grand - aunt of Mrs. Gadabout's father , if common fame lie not , stept aside with the Duke of Buckingham , when he ...
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... ou and distinguishing those which are the sources o pleasure , and those which are productive of pain they have endeavoured also to investigate the cause and the qualities in the different objects by which their. 12 THE MIRROR .
... ou and distinguishing those which are the sources o pleasure , and those which are productive of pain they have endeavoured also to investigate the cause and the qualities in the different objects by which their. 12 THE MIRROR .
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الصفحة 73 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
الصفحة 156 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
الصفحة 39 - That care, however, which watched his health was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
الصفحة 73 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
الصفحة 159 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
الصفحة 70 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
الصفحة 222 - The idea of publishing a periodical paper in Edinburgh, took its rise in a company of gentlemen, whom particular circumstances of connection brought frequently together. Their discourse often turned upon subjects of manners, of taste, and of literature. By one of those accidental resolutions, of which the origin cannot easily be traced, it was determined to put their thoughts into writing, and to read them for the entertainment...
الصفحة 217 - Edward's whole tenderness and attention were called forth to mitigate her grief; and, after its first transports had subsided, he carried her to London, in hopes that objects new to her, and commonly attractive to all, might contribute to remove it. With a man possessed of feelings like Sir Edward's, the affliction of Louisa gave a certain respect to his attentions.
الصفحة 212 - He could not help expressing some surprise at the appearance of refinement in the conversation of the latter, much beyond what her situation seemed likely to confer. Her father accounted for it. She had received her education in the...
الصفحة 154 - Expectancy and Rose of the fair State, ' The Glass of Fashion, and the Mold of Form, 4 Th' observ'd of all Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress, and to perplex his conduct.