The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 3Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... keep to the circumstance before you ; make no allusions to what is passed , or conclusions referring to what is to come : do not shew a hoard of matter for dissension in your breast ; but , if it is necessary , lay before him the thing ...
... keep to the circumstance before you ; make no allusions to what is passed , or conclusions referring to what is to come : do not shew a hoard of matter for dissension in your breast ; but , if it is necessary , lay before him the thing ...
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... keep open , until I can inform myself of the candidates , having resolved in this case to depend no more upon their friend's word , than I would upon their own . From my own Apartment , October 31 . I was this morning awakened by a ...
... keep open , until I can inform myself of the candidates , having resolved in this case to depend no more upon their friend's word , than I would upon their own . From my own Apartment , October 31 . I was this morning awakened by a ...
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... keep his thoughts to himself , for his medi- tation this morning had cost me three coffee - dishes , and a clean pipe . ' He seemed concerned at that , and told me he was a dancing - master , and had been reading a dance or two before ...
... keep his thoughts to himself , for his medi- tation this morning had cost me three coffee - dishes , and a clean pipe . ' He seemed concerned at that , and told me he was a dancing - master , and had been reading a dance or two before ...
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... keep your thoughts of happiness within the reach of your fortune , and not measure it by comparison with others.But , indeed , Ma- dam , when I behold that beauteous form of your's , and consider the generality of your sex , as to their ...
... keep your thoughts of happiness within the reach of your fortune , and not measure it by comparison with others.But , indeed , Ma- dam , when I behold that beauteous form of your's , and consider the generality of your sex , as to their ...
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... keeping her out of the dirt . ' My fair client burst out a laughing at the account I gave her of my escape , and went away seemingly convinced of the reasonableness of my discourse to her . As soon as she was gone , my maid brought up ...
... keeping her out of the dirt . ' My fair client burst out a laughing at the account I gave her of my escape , and went away seemingly convinced of the reasonableness of my discourse to her . As soon as she was gone , my maid brought up ...
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Page 145 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 99 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Page 178 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 163 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 164 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost Sir Richard Steele assisted in this paper.
Page 163 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 120 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 72 - As for me, I am the friend of the Gods and of good men, an agreeable companion to the artizan, an household guardian to the fathers of families, a patron and protector of servants, an associate in all true and generous friendships. The banquets of my votaries are never costly, but always delicious ; for none eat or drink at them who are not invited by hunger and thirst. Their slumbers are sound, and their wakings cheerful. My young men have the pleasure of hearing themselves praised by those who...
Page 78 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 119 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think...