The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 - English essays |
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... life of business and amusement , to attend the last hours of an old friend : an office which has filled me , if not with melancholy , at least with serious reflections , and turned my thoughts towards the contemplation of.
... life of business and amusement , to attend the last hours of an old friend : an office which has filled me , if not with melancholy , at least with serious reflections , and turned my thoughts towards the contemplation of.
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... hour will give proofs that he never felt it . Trace him through the day or year , and you will find him acting upon principles which he has in common with the illiterate and unenlightened , angry and pleased like the lowest of the ...
... hour will give proofs that he never felt it . Trace him through the day or year , and you will find him acting upon principles which he has in common with the illiterate and unenlightened , angry and pleased like the lowest of the ...
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... end of all his visions of greatness and happi- ness ; from the first hour that his health declin- ed , all his former pleasures grew tasteless . His friends expected to please him by those accounts of the No. 54 . 11 . RAMBLER .
... end of all his visions of greatness and happi- ness ; from the first hour that his health declin- ed , all his former pleasures grew tasteless . His friends expected to please him by those accounts of the No. 54 . 11 . RAMBLER .
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... hours of seriousness and wisdom , nothing appeared to raise his spirits , or gladden his heart , but the recollection of acts of good- ness ; nor to excite his attention , but some op- portunity for the exercise of the duties of reli ...
... hours of seriousness and wisdom , nothing appeared to raise his spirits , or gladden his heart , but the recollection of acts of good- ness ; nor to excite his attention , but some op- portunity for the exercise of the duties of reli ...
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... hours , her expenses , and her company ; and learned , by degrees , to drop an ex- pression of contempt , or pity , at the mention of ladies whose husbands were suspected of restrain- ing their pleasures or their play , and confessed ...
... hours , her expenses , and her company ; and learned , by degrees , to drop an ex- pression of contempt , or pity , at the mention of ladies whose husbands were suspected of restrain- ing their pleasures or their play , and confessed ...
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Page 248 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 80 - ... us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made: that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at...
Page 239 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 80 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Page 47 - ... faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Page 210 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 224 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 47 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Page 223 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Page 199 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.