The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. 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], 1807 |
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الصفحة 30
... mind , and demand- ing of her if I was not right in my conjecture , she answered me at once to the point without hesita- tion - I confess to you , ' says she , that the dis- course which Dr. Mac - Infidel yesterday held , has made me ...
... mind , and demand- ing of her if I was not right in my conjecture , she answered me at once to the point without hesita- tion - I confess to you , ' says she , that the dis- course which Dr. Mac - Infidel yesterday held , has made me ...
الصفحة 32
... mind in all afflictions would else have naturally applied , that I really know not how to support myself , nor where to look for com fort , but by throwing myself upon your friendship for advice , as the most unhappy of all beings . You ...
... mind in all afflictions would else have naturally applied , that I really know not how to support myself , nor where to look for com fort , but by throwing myself upon your friendship for advice , as the most unhappy of all beings . You ...
الصفحة 36
... mind per- mitted me to make use of , to put myself in readiness for taking my final leave of that family , and , ac- cording to the plan we had concerted , came with- out delay to this place , where , if any thing could have given ...
... mind per- mitted me to make use of , to put myself in readiness for taking my final leave of that family , and , ac- cording to the plan we had concerted , came with- out delay to this place , where , if any thing could have given ...
الصفحة 39
... mind , and the total revolution effected in it ; that what he suffered during this state of trial and suspense no words of his could paint , but the accounts he received of me from this good man , and the benefits he knew I was gaining ...
... mind , and the total revolution effected in it ; that what he suffered during this state of trial and suspense no words of his could paint , but the accounts he received of me from this good man , and the benefits he knew I was gaining ...
الصفحة 40
... mind , at the same time that I thought I saw him glance a significant look at me , threw me into such embarrassment on the sudden , that in vain endeavouring to evade the subject , and being pressed a little unseasonably by the Vicar ...
... mind , at the same time that I thought I saw him glance a significant look at me , threw me into such embarrassment on the sudden , that in vain endeavouring to evade the subject , and being pressed a little unseasonably by the Vicar ...
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الصفحة 255 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, — senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a Christian is?
الصفحة 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean, There, where your argosies ' with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
الصفحة 205 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
الصفحة 179 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
الصفحة 336 - I saw the apparition move from the bed side, and clap up against the wall that divided their room and mine. I went and stood directly against it within my arm's length of it, and asked it, in the name of God, what it was, that made it come disturbing of us ? I stood some time expecting an answer and receiving none, and thinking it might be some fellow hid in the room to fright me, I put out my arm to feel it, and my hand seemingly went through the body of it, and felt no manner of substance till...
الصفحة 74 - Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis, and dull Aretine But coldly imitated. Then, my glasses Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse And multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubae. My mists I'll have of perfume, vapour'd 'bout the room, To lose ourselves in...
الصفحة 178 - Tis (let me see) three years and more, (October next it will be four) Since HARLEY bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend ; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that ; As, "What's-o'elock?" And, «How's the wind!" " Whose chariot's that we left behind?
الصفحة 74 - I'll go look A little, how it heightens. [Exit. Mam. Do.— My shirts I'll have of taffeta-sarsnet, soft and light As cobwebs ; and for all my other raiment, It shall be such as might provoke the Persian, Were he to teach the world riot anew. My gloves of fishes and birds' skins, perfumed With gums of paradise, and eastern air — Sur.
الصفحة 196 - ... reproach, who is a stranger to the guilt that is implied in it ? or, subject himself to the penalty, when he knows he has never committed the crime ? This is a piece of fortitude, which every one owes to his own innocence, and without which it is impossible for a man of any merit, or figure, to live at peace with himself, in a country that abounds with wit and liberty.
الصفحة 263 - What is there in France to be learned more than in England, but falsehood in friendship, perfect slovenry, and to love no man but for my pleasure ? I have known some that have continued there by the space of half a dozen years, and when they came home, they have hid a little weerish lean face under a broad French hat, kept a terrible coil with the dust in the street in their long cloaks of grey paper, and spoken English strangely.