The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8 |
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... matter to guess at the source of this impertinence , which is nothing else but a method or mechanic art of being wise . You never see any frequent in it , whom you can suppose to have any thing in the world to do . These per- sons are ...
... matter to guess at the source of this impertinence , which is nothing else but a method or mechanic art of being wise . You never see any frequent in it , whom you can suppose to have any thing in the world to do . These per- sons are ...
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... matter what hour , what day , what month , or what year , we die . The applause of a good actor is due to him at what- ever scene of the play he makes his exit . It is thus and crossed the country to Bury * . I could D 2 NO . 153 . 27 ...
... matter what hour , what day , what month , or what year , we die . The applause of a good actor is due to him at what- ever scene of the play he makes his exit . It is thus and crossed the country to Bury * . I could D 2 NO . 153 . 27 ...
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... matters of no consequence : but , believe me , Sir , they are of the highest importance to human life ; and , if you can do any thing towards opening fair eyes , you will lay an obligation upon all your con- temporaries who are fathers ...
... matters of no consequence : but , believe me , Sir , they are of the highest importance to human life ; and , if you can do any thing towards opening fair eyes , you will lay an obligation upon all your con- temporaries who are fathers ...
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... matter to make a judgement of the abilities of others , especially of those who are in their infancy . My common - place book directs me on this occasion to mention the dawning of greatness in Alexander , who , being asked in his youth ...
... matter to make a judgement of the abilities of others , especially of those who are in their infancy . My common - place book directs me on this occasion to mention the dawning of greatness in Alexander , who , being asked in his youth ...
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... matter , and his soul retired into the world of spi- rits . Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind , which are delivered down from genera- tion to generation , as presents to the posterity of those who are yet ...
... matter , and his soul retired into the world of spi- rits . Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind , which are delivered down from genera- tion to generation , as presents to the posterity of those who are yet ...
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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...