The British Essayists;: TatlerJ. 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], 1808 |
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... short in the midst of a full career , to the great surprize and derision of their beholders . When a man foresees a decaying ministry , he has leisure to grow a malecontent , reflect upon the present conduct , and by gradual murmurs ...
... short in the midst of a full career , to the great surprize and derision of their beholders . When a man foresees a decaying ministry , he has leisure to grow a malecontent , reflect upon the present conduct , and by gradual murmurs ...
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... short work for us reformers ; for it is only want of making this a position that renders some cha- racters bad , which would otherwise be good . Tom Mercet means no man ill , but does ill to every body . His ambition is to be witty ...
... short work for us reformers ; for it is only want of making this a position that renders some cha- racters bad , which would otherwise be good . Tom Mercet means no man ill , but does ill to every body . His ambition is to be witty ...
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... short , I have now by me , digested in an alphabetical order , all the counties , corporations , and boroughs in Great Britain , with their respective tempers , as they stand related to my Thermometer . But this I shall keep to myself ...
... short , I have now by me , digested in an alphabetical order , all the counties , corporations , and boroughs in Great Britain , with their respective tempers , as they stand related to my Thermometer . But this I shall keep to myself ...
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... short , there is not a labourer , or handicraft - man , that in the cool of the evening does not relieve himself with solos and sonatas . The Italian sooths his mistress with a plaintive voice ; and bewails himself in such melting music ...
... short , there is not a labourer , or handicraft - man , that in the cool of the evening does not relieve himself with solos and sonatas . The Italian sooths his mistress with a plaintive voice ; and bewails himself in such melting music ...
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... short account of the famous Doctor Young's life , which you may call , if you please , a second part of the farce of the Sham Doctor . This perhaps will not seem so strange to you , who , if I am not mistaken , have somewhere mentioned ...
... short account of the famous Doctor Young's life , which you may call , if you please , a second part of the farce of the Sham Doctor . This perhaps will not seem so strange to you , who , if I am not mistaken , have somewhere mentioned ...
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Page 38 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 123 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise, At least, distemper'd, discontented thoughts, Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires, Blown up with high conceits engendering pride.
Page 89 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Page 266 - I have loved thy assemblies, I l:ave mourned for the divisions of thy church, I have delighted in the brightness of thy sanctuary. This vine, which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.
Page 94 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words, as well as men. The war has introduced abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns. Speculations...
Page 250 - As through unquiet rest: he, on his side Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whisper'd thus: ' Awake My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
Page 123 - As when a spark Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid Fit for the tun, some magazine to store Against a rumour'd war, the smutty grain, With sudden blaze diffused, inflames the air ; So started up, in his own shape, the fiend.
Page 266 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page 247 - ... whether the same change of inclination has happened to any other animals. For this reason, I desired a friend of mine in the country to let me know whether the lark rises as early as he did formerly and whether the cock begins to crow at his usual hour. My friend...
Page 128 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.