The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... frequently been employed in pointing out and distinguishing those which are the sources of pleasure , and those which are productive of pain ; they have endeavoured also to investigate the causes and the qualities in the different ...
... frequently been employed in pointing out and distinguishing those which are the sources of pleasure , and those which are productive of pain ; they have endeavoured also to investigate the causes and the qualities in the different ...
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... Naturally rather of a sober disposition , I found more frequently disgust than pleasure amidst those scenes of dissipation in which I was engaged . I was often obliged to roar out a catch expressive 18 N ° 78 . THE MIRROR .
... Naturally rather of a sober disposition , I found more frequently disgust than pleasure amidst those scenes of dissipation in which I was engaged . I was often obliged to roar out a catch expressive 18 N ° 78 . THE MIRROR .
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... frequent it again . My wife is not a whit less happy in acquiring friends than myself . Besides all her relations , of whom ( for I chose a woman of family ) she has a very great number , every lady she meets at visits , at church , or ...
... frequent it again . My wife is not a whit less happy in acquiring friends than myself . Besides all her relations , of whom ( for I chose a woman of family ) she has a very great number , every lady she meets at visits , at church , or ...
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... frequent than that of your negatively good men ; people who strictly conform to the laws of decency and good order in society , whose conduct is squared to the rules of honesty and morality , and yet who never did one virtuous or ...
... frequent than that of your negatively good men ; people who strictly conform to the laws of decency and good order in society , whose conduct is squared to the rules of honesty and morality , and yet who never did one virtuous or ...
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... frequently indulged . 6 These discoveries , however new and astonishing , are not supernatural . But I have just now read an advertisement , which carries its information beyond the bounds of space and time : and though the mo- desty of ...
... frequently indulged . 6 These discoveries , however new and astonishing , are not supernatural . But I have just now read an advertisement , which carries its information beyond the bounds of space and time : and though the mo- desty of ...
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الصفحة 154 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers...
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 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...
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 158 - ... indeed, it exhibits some temporary marks of a real disorder. His mind, subject from Nature to all the weakness of sensibility, agitated by the incidental misfortune of Ophelia's death, amidst the dark and permanent impression of his revenge, is thrown for a while off its poise, and, in the paroxysm of the moment, breaks forth into that extravagant rhapsody which he utters to Laertes.
الصفحة 27 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
الصفحة 217 - ... of Louisa nourished those feelings of tenderness and attachment. She never mentioned her wrongs in words : sometimes a few starting tears would speak them ; and when time had given her a little more composure, her lute discoursed melancholy music. On their arrival in England, Sir Edward carried Louisa to his seat in the country. There she was treated with all the observance of a wife ; and had she chosen it, might have commanded more than the ordinary splendour of one.
الصفحة 217 - His daughter felt this with anguish the moft poignant, and her affliction, for a while, refused consolation. Sir 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 163 - In these the poet, the novel writer, and the essayist, have always delighted; you are not, therefore, singular, for having dedicated so much of the MIRROR to sentiment and sensibility. I imagine, however, Sir, there is much danger in pushing these qualities too far: the rules of our conduct should be founded on a basis more...
الصفحة 216 - Edward felt strongly the power of her beauty and of her grief. His heart was not made for that part which, it is probable, he thought it could have performed : it was still subject to remorse, to compassion, and to love.