The British Essayists, المجلد 4Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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acquaintance admired agreeable Apartment appear APRIL 13 Bag-pipe Bass-viol beauty behaviour Bernard Lintot Bickerstaff Bouchain Cælia character charming Cicero circumstances Coffee-house confess consider consort conversation dæmon death delight desire discourse Douay endeavour entertain Erasistratus esteem eyes fancy father favour Flute fortune gentleman give Great-Britain happy Harpsichord hath heart honour humour husband imagination impertinent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF kind lady learning letter live look lover mankind manner marriage merit mind Mohocks nature neral never observe occasion OVID Palamede particular pass passion persons Philander play pleased pleasure poet present proper Pyrrha racter reader reason received says seems sense Sheer-lane shew soon soul speak spirit Stratonice TATLER Telemachus tell temper Terentia thing thought THURSDAY Timoleon tions told town turn upholsterer Virgil virtue whole wife woman word write young
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الصفحة 176 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
الصفحة 142 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
الصفحة 72 - YESTERDAY came hither about two hours before the company generally make their appearance, with a design to read over all the newspapers ; but upon my sitting down I was accosted by Ned Softly, who saw me from a corner in the other end of the room, where I found he had been writing something.
الصفحة 56 - Whether the last letters brought any accounts that one might rely upon from Bender ?' I told him, ' None that I heard of;' and asked him, ' Whether he had yet married his eldest daughter?' He told me ' No. But pray,' says he, 'tell me sincerely, what are your thoughts of the king of Sweden?' (for though his wife and children were starving, I found his chief concern at present was for this great monarch.)) I told him, ' that I looked upon him as one of the first heroes of the age.' But pray,' says...
الصفحة 56 - ... hemming after me : and who should it be but my old neighbour the upholsterer? I saw he was reduced to extreme poverty, by certain shabby superfluities in his dress : for, notwithstanding that it was a very sultry day for the time of the year, he wore a loose...
الصفحة 12 - READING is to the mind-, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated ; by the other, virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
الصفحة 83 - Nay, this occasion, in me who look upon the distinctions amongst men to be merely scenical, raised reflections upon the emptiness of all human perfection and greatness in general; and I could not but regret, that the sacred heads which lie buried in the neighbourhood of this little portion of earth, in which my poor old friend is deposited, are returned to dust as well as he, and that there is no difference in the grave between the imaginary and the real monarch.
الصفحة 144 - ... why this cruelty to the humble, to the meek, to the undiscerning, to the thoughtless? Nor age, nor business, nor distress can erase the dear image from my imagination. In the same week, I saw her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler!
الصفحة 259 - The appellation of gentleman is never to be affixed to a man's circumstances, but to his behaviour in them.
الصفحة 72 - ... his reading, and garnish his conversation. Ned is indeed a true English reader, incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits, turns, points, and quibbles, which are so frequent in the most admired of our English poets...