The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 4C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, 1774 - English essays |
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How Nature paints her colours , how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid fweets . Such whifp'ring wak'd her , but with startled eye On Adam , whom embracing , thus fhe fpake : O fole ! in whom my thoughts find all repofe ...
How Nature paints her colours , how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid fweets . Such whifp'ring wak'd her , but with startled eye On Adam , whom embracing , thus fhe fpake : O fole ! in whom my thoughts find all repofe ...
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Page 302 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
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Page 228 - ... where he dined upon me, and drank the king's health. When I came again into the world, I found that I had been happier in my retirement than I thought, having probably by that means escaped wearing a monstrous pair of breeches.
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Page 186 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
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| Title | The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 4 The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Sir Richard Steele |
| Authors | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, 1774 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 4, 2007 |
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