Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 12
... hath power over all flesh , and unto whose appointment we ought with patience meekly to submit our- selves ( for to be agents voluntarily in our own destruction , is against both God and nature ; ) yet there is no doubt , but in so ...
... hath power over all flesh , and unto whose appointment we ought with patience meekly to submit our- selves ( for to be agents voluntarily in our own destruction , is against both God and nature ; ) yet there is no doubt , but in so ...
Page 24
... hath a wholesome walke to the brooke side , pleasant shade , by the sweet silver streames , he hath good aire , and sweet smels of fine fresh meadow flowres , he hears the melodious harmony of birds , he sees the swannes , herons ...
... hath a wholesome walke to the brooke side , pleasant shade , by the sweet silver streames , he hath good aire , and sweet smels of fine fresh meadow flowres , he hears the melodious harmony of birds , he sees the swannes , herons ...
Page 32
... hath been said I may deserve of charitable readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall hath entered me upon this contro- versy , but the enforcement of conscience only , and a preventive fear , lest the omitting of this duty ...
... hath been said I may deserve of charitable readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall hath entered me upon this contro- versy , but the enforcement of conscience only , and a preventive fear , lest the omitting of this duty ...
Page 34
... hath , liberty to propose to herself , though , of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief ...
... hath , liberty to propose to herself , though , of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief ...
Page 36
... hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that , which is called fortune from without , or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things , with a solid and treat- able smoothness to paint out ...
... hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that , which is called fortune from without , or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things , with a solid and treat- able smoothness to paint out ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addison admirable Anatomy of Melancholy ancient apologues appear Arabian beauty caliphs Canterbury Tales century character charms Chaucer colours composition consider criticism crusade delight diction Ditto Dryden East edition effect elegant endeavour English English Poetry Essays excellent exhibited exquisite fable fairy fancy genius Geoffery Gesta Romanorum grace hath heaven humour imagery imagination justly king language learned literary literature Lord manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never night observes opinion oriental passage period Persian perspicuity philosophy Pilpay pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry present productions prose racter reader remarks rich Roger de Coverley romance says second Crusade sense Shakspeare shew Simeon Seth simplicity Sir Roger species specimen Spectator spirit stars story style sublime supposed sweetness taste Tatler things third crusade thou tion verse whilst William of Malmesbury wonderful words writers written