The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volumes 5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... Beauty by Exercise-- Lazy Ladies - Very busy ones 249. Adventures of a Shilling 250. Institution of a Court of Honour Steele . Addison . 251. On Virtuous Independence - Where true Hap- piness is to be found · Steele . 252. Defence of ...
... Beauty by Exercise-- Lazy Ladies - Very busy ones 249. Adventures of a Shilling 250. Institution of a Court of Honour Steele . Addison . 251. On Virtuous Independence - Where true Hap- piness is to be found · Steele . 252. Defence of ...
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... , Your humble servant , PLAIN ENGLISH . ' I think the lady's brother has given us a very good idea of that elegant expression ; it being the greatest Dr. South . beauty of speech to be close and intelligible . To 10 N ° 218 . TATLER .
... , Your humble servant , PLAIN ENGLISH . ' I think the lady's brother has given us a very good idea of that elegant expression ; it being the greatest Dr. South . beauty of speech to be close and intelligible . To 10 N ° 218 . TATLER .
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... beauty than in any spot in the universe , if we did not disguise it by false garniture , and detract from it by impertinent improvements . I have by me a treatise concerning pinners , which , I have some hopes , will contribute to the ...
... beauty than in any spot in the universe , if we did not disguise it by false garniture , and detract from it by impertinent improvements . I have by me a treatise concerning pinners , which , I have some hopes , will contribute to the ...
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... beauty is full of attraction , but not of allurement . There is such a composure in her looks , and propriety in her dress , that you would think it impossible she should change the garb , you one day see her in , for any thing so ...
... beauty is full of attraction , but not of allurement . There is such a composure in her looks , and propriety in her dress , that you would think it impossible she should change the garb , you one day see her in , for any thing so ...
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... beauty . The topic of love is a subject on which a man is more beholden to nature for his eloquence , than to the instruction of the schools , or my lady's woman . From the two latter your scholar and page must have reaped all their ...
... beauty . The topic of love is a subject on which a man is more beholden to nature for his eloquence , than to the instruction of the schools , or my lady's woman . From the two latter your scholar and page must have reaped all their ...
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Page 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 31 - 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 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Page 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Page 110 - 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 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Page 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.