The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 5Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... matters , in which my correspondents are ur- gent for answers ; which I shall do where I can , and appeal to the judgment of others where I cannot . C MR . BICKERSTAFF , Aug. 15 , 1710 . Taking the air the other day on horseback , in ...
... matters , in which my correspondents are ur- gent for answers ; which I shall do where I can , and appeal to the judgment of others where I cannot . C MR . BICKERSTAFF , Aug. 15 , 1710 . Taking the air the other day on horseback , in ...
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... matter to bring myself to pull off the hat first : but it is the only way to be upon any good terms with those we meet with . Therefore the first advance is of high moment . Men judge of others by themselves ; and he that will command ...
... matter to bring myself to pull off the hat first : but it is the only way to be upon any good terms with those we meet with . Therefore the first advance is of high moment . Men judge of others by themselves ; and he that will command ...
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... matter , he had no small pro- vocation to be offended ; for he attacked him in so wrong a season , that he could not have any relish of pleasure in it ; though , perhaps , at another time it might have passed upon him without giving him ...
... matter , he had no small pro- vocation to be offended ; for he attacked him in so wrong a season , that he could not have any relish of pleasure in it ; though , perhaps , at another time it might have passed upon him without giving him ...
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... matter for its farther errors . Tom Mercet has as quick a fancy as any one liv- ing ; but there is no reasonable man ... matters which produce mirth and good - humour . I went to spend an hour after this manner with some friends , who ...
... matter for its farther errors . Tom Mercet has as quick a fancy as any one liv- ing ; but there is no reasonable man ... matters which produce mirth and good - humour . I went to spend an hour after this manner with some friends , who ...
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... matter into my serious consideration , and do find that this custom is by no means to be indulged in this country and climate . It is indeed very unaccountable , that most of our British youth should take such great delight in these ...
... matter into my serious consideration , and do find that this custom is by no means to be indulged in this country and climate . It is indeed very unaccountable , that most of our British youth should take such great delight in these ...
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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...