The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volym 7 |
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... EPIG . xii . 47 . In all thy humours , whether grave or mellow , Thou'rt such a touchy , testy , pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit , and mirth , and spleen about thee , There is no living with thee , nor without thee . It is very ...
... EPIG . xii . 47 . In all thy humours , whether grave or mellow , Thou'rt such a touchy , testy , pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit , and mirth , and spleen about thee , There is no living with thee , nor without thee . It is very ...
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... Epig . i . 87 . What correspondence can I hold with you , Who are so near , and yet so distant too ? My friend Will Honeycomb is one of those sort of men who are very often absent in conversation , and what the French call a reveur and ...
... Epig . i . 87 . What correspondence can I hold with you , Who are so near , and yet so distant too ? My friend Will Honeycomb is one of those sort of men who are very often absent in conversation , and what the French call a reveur and ...
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... EPIG . liv . 12 . Thy beard and head are of a different dye ; Short of one foot , distorted in an eye : With all these tokens of a knave complete , Should'st thou be honest , thou'rt a devilish cheat . I have seen a very ingenious ...
... EPIG . liv . 12 . Thy beard and head are of a different dye ; Short of one foot , distorted in an eye : With all these tokens of a knave complete , Should'st thou be honest , thou'rt a devilish cheat . I have seen a very ingenious ...
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... Epig . xxiii . 10 . The present joys of life we doubly taste , By looking back with pleasure to the past . THE last method which I proposed in my Saturday's paper , for filling up those empty spaces of life which are so tedious and ...
... Epig . xxiii . 10 . The present joys of life we doubly taste , By looking back with pleasure to the past . THE last method which I proposed in my Saturday's paper , for filling up those empty spaces of life which are so tedious and ...
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... Epig . i . 69 . Let Rufus weep , rejoice , stand , sit , or walk , Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk ; Let him eat , drink , ask questions , or dispute , Still he must speak of Nævia , or be mute . He writ to his father , ending ...
... Epig . i . 69 . Let Rufus weep , rejoice , stand , sit , or walk , Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk ; Let him eat , drink , ask questions , or dispute , Still he must speak of Nævia , or be mute . He writ to his father , ending ...
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Sida 136 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Sida 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Sida 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Sida 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Sida 216 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
Sida 280 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Sida 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Sida 211 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Sida 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Sida 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.