The British Essayists;: GuardianJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... fear I to awaken you to repentance , so that your sin may be forgiven . The divine laws have been broken ; but much injury , irreparable injury , has been also done to me , and the just Judge will not pardon that until I do . " My Lord ...
... fear I to awaken you to repentance , so that your sin may be forgiven . The divine laws have been broken ; but much injury , irreparable injury , has been also done to me , and the just Judge will not pardon that until I do . " My Lord ...
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... fear , my love , To taste the odours of the woodbine grove , To pass the evening glooms in harmless play , And sweetly swearing , languish life away . An altar bound with recent flowers , I rear To thee , best season of the various year ...
... fear , my love , To taste the odours of the woodbine grove , To pass the evening glooms in harmless play , And sweetly swearing , languish life away . An altar bound with recent flowers , I rear To thee , best season of the various year ...
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... Fears that delight , and anxious doubts of joy , Which check our swelling hopes , but not destroy ; And short - breath'd vows , forgot as soon as made , On airy pinions flutter through the glade . Youth with a haughty look , and gay ...
... Fears that delight , and anxious doubts of joy , Which check our swelling hopes , but not destroy ; And short - breath'd vows , forgot as soon as made , On airy pinions flutter through the glade . Youth with a haughty look , and gay ...
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... fear of prevention , until which time you shall find me there . Tergoso , * Aug. 10 , 1613 . ED . SACKVILLE . ' A Mons . Monsieur SACKVILLE . • I HAVE received your letter by your man , and acknowledge you have dealt nobly with me , and ...
... fear of prevention , until which time you shall find me there . Tergoso , * Aug. 10 , 1613 . ED . SACKVILLE . ' A Mons . Monsieur SACKVILLE . • I HAVE received your letter by your man , and acknowledge you have dealt nobly with me , and ...
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... fear they reign also where you are . There are but two ways to resolve doubts of this nature ; by oath , or by sword . The first is due to magistrates , and communicable to friends ; the other to such as maliciously slander and im ...
... fear they reign also where you are . There are but two ways to resolve doubts of this nature ; by oath , or by sword . The first is due to magistrates , and communicable to friends ; the other to such as maliciously slander and im ...
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Page 231 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 232 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Page 232 - Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Page 80 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Page 233 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 43 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 182 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Page 232 - She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Page 49 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Page 197 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.