The British Essayists, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 - English essays |
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... imagination , when it is not governed by a good un- derstanding , makes such miserable havock both in conversation and business , that it lays you defence- less , and fearful to throw the least word in its way that may give it new ...
... imagination , when it is not governed by a good un- derstanding , makes such miserable havock both in conversation and business , that it lays you defence- less , and fearful to throw the least word in its way that may give it new ...
Page 105
... imagination can be entertained with are to be found there , and that even the style of the Scriptures is more than human . Joseph , a beloved child of Israel , became invidi- ous to his elder brethren , for no other reason but his ...
... imagination can be entertained with are to be found there , and that even the style of the Scriptures is more than human . Joseph , a beloved child of Israel , became invidi- ous to his elder brethren , for no other reason but his ...
Page 124
... imagination , which were improved , instead of being defaced , by sleep , and produced in me the following dream : I was no sooner fallen asleep , but methought the angel Ithuriel appeared to me , and , with a smile that still added to ...
... imagination , which were improved , instead of being defaced , by sleep , and produced in me the following dream : I was no sooner fallen asleep , but methought the angel Ithuriel appeared to me , and , with a smile that still added to ...
Page 140
... imagination , and depresses the judgment ? Were there only this sin- gle consideration , that we are less masters of our- selves , when we drink in the least proportion above the exigencies of thirst ; I say , were this all that could ...
... imagination , and depresses the judgment ? Were there only this sin- gle consideration , that we are less masters of our- selves , when we drink in the least proportion above the exigencies of thirst ; I say , were this all that could ...
Page 142
... imagination cannot shape to itself any thing more monstrous and unna- tural than the familiarities between Drunkenness and Chastity . The wretched Astræa , who is the perfec- tion of beauty and innocence , has long been thus condemned ...
... imagination cannot shape to itself any thing more monstrous and unna- tural than the familiarities between Drunkenness and Chastity . The wretched Astræa , who is the perfec- tion of beauty and innocence , has long been thus condemned ...
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Page 29 - 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 106 - While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Returning home at night, you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink.
Page 74 - Sir Robert Naunton, Osborn, Daniel the Historian, and several others who writ later ; but, being men of the court, and affecting the phrases then in fashion, they are often either not to be understood, or appear perfectly ridiculous. " What remedies are to be applied to these evils I have not room to consider, having, I fear, already taken up most of your paper : besides, I think it is our office only to represent abuses, and yours to redress them. " I am, with great respect, " Sir, " Yours,
Page 146 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Page 192 - Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whisper'd thus: ' Awake My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!
Page 29 - I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour. I was very much...
Page 164 - The next to her was a figure which somewhat puzzled me : it was that of a man looking, with horror in his eyes, upon a silver bason filled with water. Observing something in his countenance that looked like lunacy, I fancied at first that he was to express that kind of distraction which the physicians call the Hydrophobia : but considering what the intention of the show was, I immediately recollected myself, and concluded it to be Anabaptism.
Page 106 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Page 73 - I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Page 154 - Let others, who such meannesses can brook, Strike countenance to every great man's look ; I rate ray freedom higher. This author's raillery is the raillery of a friend, and does not turn the sacred order into ridicule ; but is a just censure on such persons as take advantage, from the necessities of a man of merit, to impose on him hardships that are by no means suitable to the dignity of his profession. • In ' A Satire addressed to a Friend that is about to leave the University,