The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8 |
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... humour of living great will vanish out of your imagination , and you will find love has nothing to do with state . Solitude , with the person beloved , has a pleasure , even in a woman's mind , beyond show or pomp . You are therefore to ...
... humour of living great will vanish out of your imagination , and you will find love has nothing to do with state . Solitude , with the person beloved , has a pleasure , even in a woman's mind , beyond show or pomp . You are therefore to ...
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... humour and reason tells us , that nothing bore harder upon a poor man in his time , than the continual ridicule which his habit and dress afforded to the beaux of Rome : Quid , quòd materiam præbet causasque jocorum Omnibus hic idem ...
... humour and reason tells us , that nothing bore harder upon a poor man in his time , than the continual ridicule which his habit and dress afforded to the beaux of Rome : Quid , quòd materiam præbet causasque jocorum Omnibus hic idem ...
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... that are buried in Flanders ache every cold rning at Chelsea . " The fond humour of appearing in the gay and shionable world , and being applauded for trivial excellences , is what makes youth have age in con- 26 NO . 153 . SPECTATOR .
... that are buried in Flanders ache every cold rning at Chelsea . " The fond humour of appearing in the gay and shionable world , and being applauded for trivial excellences , is what makes youth have age in con- 26 NO . 153 . SPECTATOR .
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... humour , and never wants something to say ; besides all which , he has a most spiteful dangerous tongue if you should provoke him . To make a woman's man , he must not be a man of sense , or a fool ; the business is to entertain , and ...
... humour , and never wants something to say ; besides all which , he has a most spiteful dangerous tongue if you should provoke him . To make a woman's man , he must not be a man of sense , or a fool ; the business is to entertain , and ...
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... humour , and all we could wish followed of course . Then , again , your Tully , and your discourses of another life , are the very bane of mirth and good - humour . Pr'ythee don't value thyself on thy reason at that exorbitant rate ...
... humour , and all we could wish followed of course . Then , again , your Tully , and your discourses of another life , are the very bane of mirth and good - humour . Pr'ythee don't value thyself on thy reason at that exorbitant rate ...
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Page 97 - 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' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 65 - ... seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage...
Page 204 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 65 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Page 80 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 148 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 355 - Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
Page 317 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 319 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 66 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy...