The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 5Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... hand of a great divine I have heretofore made bold with . ' It is such a pleasure as can never cloy or over- work the mind ; a delight that grows and improves under thought and reflection : and while it exercises , does also endear ...
... hand of a great divine I have heretofore made bold with . ' It is such a pleasure as can never cloy or over- work the mind ; a delight that grows and improves under thought and reflection : and while it exercises , does also endear ...
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... hands , I shall desire to be excused , if I keep to myself ; but so it is , that I have walked by it for the better part of a cen- tury to my safety at least , if not to my advantage ; and have among my papers a register of all the ...
... hands , I shall desire to be excused , if I keep to myself ; but so it is , that I have walked by it for the better part of a cen- tury to my safety at least , if not to my advantage ; and have among my papers a register of all the ...
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... hands on at the person who offends them . Our neighbour was only saying to his wife , she went a little too fine , ' when she immediately pulled his periwig off , and stamping it under her feet wrung her hands , and said , ' Never ...
... hands on at the person who offends them . Our neighbour was only saying to his wife , she went a little too fine , ' when she immediately pulled his periwig off , and stamping it under her feet wrung her hands , and said , ' Never ...
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... hand to ruffle , or tucker to pull down ; but with a reproachful air she an- swered : - ، Sir , do you impute that to my desire of gadding , which might have happened to yourself , with all your wisdom and gravity ? The serpent spoke so ...
... hand to ruffle , or tucker to pull down ; but with a reproachful air she an- swered : - ، Sir , do you impute that to my desire of gadding , which might have happened to yourself , with all your wisdom and gravity ? The serpent spoke so ...
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... hand such of the fair sex as are obliged to pass through them . " That he has been at great expense for clean gloves to offer his hand with . That towards the evening he approaches near London , and employs himself as a convoy towards ...
... hand such of the fair sex as are obliged to pass through them . " That he has been at great expense for clean gloves to offer his hand with . That towards the evening he approaches near London , and employs himself as a convoy towards ...
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Page 35 - 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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 114 - 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...
Page 81 - 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 118 - That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Page 119 - 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.
Page 187 - I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost.
Page 194 - If he be deigned the honour to sit down. Soon as the tarts appear, Sir Crape, withdraw ! Those dainties are not for a spiritual maw ; Observe your distance, and be sure to stand Hard by the cistern with your cap in hand; There for diversion you may pick your teeth, Till the kind voider* comes for your relief.
Page 114 - 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 33 - She first his weak indulgence will accuse." Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning ; And of their vain contest appeared no end.
Page 84 - ... through that difficulty, how would he be able to understand it? The first thing that strikes your eye, is the breaks at the end of almost every sentence; of which I know not the use, only that it is a refinement, and very frequently practised. Then you will observe the abbreviations and elisions, by which consonants of most obdurate sound are joined together, without one softening vowel to intervene...