The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volumes 33-34T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his won- derful powers . In mixed company , and fre- quently in company that ought to have looked up to him , many , thinking they had a charac- ter for learning to support ...
... talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his won- derful powers . In mixed company , and fre- quently in company that ought to have looked up to him , many , thinking they had a charac- ter for learning to support ...
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... talk thus gravely for nothing . No man is re- quired to betray his own secrets . I will , however , confess , that I have now been a writer almost a week , and have not yet heard a single word of praise IDLER . No 2 .
... talk thus gravely for nothing . No man is re- quired to betray his own secrets . I will , however , confess , that I have now been a writer almost a week , and have not yet heard a single word of praise IDLER . No 2 .
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... talk of men must relate to facts in which the talkers have , or think they have , an interest ; and where such facts cannot be known , the pleasures of society will be merely sensual . Thus the natives of the Mahometan empires , who ...
... talk of men must relate to facts in which the talkers have , or think they have , an interest ; and where such facts cannot be known , the pleasures of society will be merely sensual . Thus the natives of the Mahometan empires , who ...
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... talk who were born to work ; and affords in- formation sufficient to elate vanity , and stiffen obsti- nacy , but too little to enlarge the mind into complete skill for full comprehension . Whatever is found to gratify the public will ...
... talk who were born to work ; and affords in- formation sufficient to elate vanity , and stiffen obsti- nacy , but too little to enlarge the mind into complete skill for full comprehension . Whatever is found to gratify the public will ...
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... talk to you upon subjects of this delicate nature ? you who seem ignorant of the inexpressible charms of the elbow - chair , attended with a soft stool for the elevation of the feet ! Thus , vacant of thought , do I indulge the live ...
... talk to you upon subjects of this delicate nature ? you who seem ignorant of the inexpressible charms of the elbow - chair , attended with a soft stool for the elevation of the feet ! Thus , vacant of thought , do I indulge the live ...
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Page 239 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 114 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Page 262 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 115 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 63 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 62 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course!
Page 62 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 250 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 208 - His gouvernante joined the old man and his daughter in the prayers and thanksgivings which they put up on his recovery ; for she, too, was a heretic, in the phrase of the village. The philosopher walked out with his long staff and his dog, and left them to their prayers and thanksgivings. " My master," said the old woman, — " alas ! he is not a Christian ; but he is the best of unbelievers.
Page 183 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...