The British Essayists, Volume 11Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 - English essays |
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... speak but this once ; " as if there was no difference between Abraham's interceding for So- dom , for which he had no warrant , as we can find , and our asking those things which we are required to pray for ; they would therefore have ...
... speak but this once ; " as if there was no difference between Abraham's interceding for So- dom , for which he had no warrant , as we can find , and our asking those things which we are required to pray for ; they would therefore have ...
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... speaking like a man versed in the ways of the world , affirms , that the well laying and carrying on of a design to rob an orchard , trains up a youth insensibly to caution , secrecy , and circumspection , and fits him for matters of ...
... speaking like a man versed in the ways of the world , affirms , that the well laying and carrying on of a design to rob an orchard , trains up a youth insensibly to caution , secrecy , and circumspection , and fits him for matters of ...
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... speaking of , I shall present my reader with a faithful copy of it ; after having first informed him , that the deceased person had in his youth been bred to trade , but finding himself not so well turned for business , he had for ...
... speaking of , I shall present my reader with a faithful copy of it ; after having first informed him , that the deceased person had in his youth been bred to trade , but finding himself not so well turned for business , he had for ...
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... speak or do ; and , if the reader will give me leave to use the expression , that their thoughts are always paradisaical . ' 6 We are in the next place to consider the machines of the fourth book . Satan being now within pros- pect of ...
... speak or do ; and , if the reader will give me leave to use the expression , that their thoughts are always paradisaical . ' 6 We are in the next place to consider the machines of the fourth book . Satan being now within pros- pect of ...
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... speak the most endearing things without descending from his natural dignity , and the wo- man receiving them without departing from the modesty of her character ; in a word , to adjust the prerogatives of wisdom and beauty , and make ...
... speak the most endearing things without descending from his natural dignity , and the wo- man receiving them without departing from the modesty of her character ; in a word , to adjust the prerogatives of wisdom and beauty , and make ...
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Page 86 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 187 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Page 301 - The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 79 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself, With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine ; to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Page 275 - O flowers That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Page 59 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Page 331 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rising Sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Page 119 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 79 - Return, fair Eve ; Whom fliest thou ? whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life ; to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear. Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim, My other half.
Page 329 - Oh, spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing Spring ; See lofty Lebanon his head advance : See nodding forests on the mountains dance ; See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers : Prepare the way ! a God ! a God appears ! A God ! a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity.