The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلد 15 |
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الصفحة 11
... whole reputation depends upon a pun or a quibble ? You may often see an artist in the streets gain a circle of admirers by carrying a long pole upon his chin or forehead in a perpendicular posture . Ambition has taught some to write ...
... whole reputation depends upon a pun or a quibble ? You may often see an artist in the streets gain a circle of admirers by carrying a long pole upon his chin or forehead in a perpendicular posture . Ambition has taught some to write ...
الصفحة 13
... whole kitchen was furnished with musical instruments ; and could not but look upon this ar- tist as a kind of burlesque musician . He afterwards , of his own accord , fell into the imitation of several singing birds . My friend and I ...
... whole kitchen was furnished with musical instruments ; and could not but look upon this ar- tist as a kind of burlesque musician . He afterwards , of his own accord , fell into the imitation of several singing birds . My friend and I ...
الصفحة 15
... whole infinitude of space . This consideration might furnish us with many in- centives to devotion , and motives to morality ; but , as this subject has been handled by several excellent writers , I shall consider it in a light wherein ...
... whole infinitude of space . This consideration might furnish us with many in- centives to devotion , and motives to morality ; but , as this subject has been handled by several excellent writers , I shall consider it in a light wherein ...
الصفحة 18
... whole creation frowns upon him , and all nature looks black about him , he has his light and support within him , that are able to cheer his mind , and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him . He knows that ...
... whole creation frowns upon him , and all nature looks black about him , he has his light and support within him , that are able to cheer his mind , and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him . He knows that ...
الصفحة 21
... whole crowd stood agape , and ready to take the doctor at his word ; when putting his hand into a long bag , as every one was expecting his crown - piece , he drew out an handful of little packets , each of which he informed the ...
... whole crowd stood agape , and ready to take the doctor at his word ; when putting his hand into a long bag , as every one was expecting his crown - piece , he drew out an handful of little packets , each of which he informed the ...
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الصفحة 256 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
الصفحة 104 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
الصفحة 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 36 - They may show him that his discontent is unreasonable, but are by no means sufficient to relieve it. They rather give despair than consolation. In a word, a man might reply to one of these comforters, as Augustus did to his friend, who advised him not to grieve for the death of a person whom he loved, because his grief could not fetch him again. " It is for that very reason (said the emperor) that I grieve.
الصفحة 113 - Our inimitable Shakespear is a stumbling-block to the whole tribe of these rigid critics. Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
الصفحة 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 18 - God is present with us, by the effects which he produceth in us. Our outward senses are too gross to apprehend him; we may, however, taste and see how gracious he is, by his influence upon our minds, by those virtuous thoughts which he awakens in us, by those secret comforts and refreshments which he...
الصفحة 209 - THE man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
الصفحة 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 35 - Hammond, written by Bishop FelL As this good man was troubled with a complication of distempers, when he had the gout upon him, he used to thank God that it was not the stone ; and when he had the stone, that he had not both these distempers on him at the same time.