The British Essayists: RamblerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... expected that no man should suffer his heart to be inflamed with ma- lice but by injuries ; that none should busy himself in contesting the pretensions of another but when some right of his own was involved in the question ; that at ...
... expected that no man should suffer his heart to be inflamed with ma- lice but by injuries ; that none should busy himself in contesting the pretensions of another but when some right of his own was involved in the question ; that at ...
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... any kind of excellence , expects to fill the place which is now possessed by another ; for there are already names of every class sufficient to employ all that will desire to remember 0 C D them ; and surely he that is 44 146 . RAMBLER .
... any kind of excellence , expects to fill the place which is now possessed by another ; for there are already names of every class sufficient to employ all that will desire to remember 0 C D them ; and surely he that is 44 146 . RAMBLER .
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... it dt necessary to the extension of their acquaintance , and improvement of their interest ; and whenever any he place became vacant , they expected to be repaid . In the midst of these hopes , my father was 149 . 57 RAMBLER .
... it dt necessary to the extension of their acquaintance , and improvement of their interest ; and whenever any he place became vacant , they expected to be repaid . In the midst of these hopes , my father was 149 . 57 RAMBLER .
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... expected only to echo their opinions , facilitate their desires , and accompany their rambles ; it was unfor- tunate that our early introduction into polite com- pany , and habitual knowledge of the arts of civility , had given us such ...
... expected only to echo their opinions , facilitate their desires , and accompany their rambles ; it was unfor- tunate that our early introduction into polite com- pany , and habitual knowledge of the arts of civility , had given us such ...
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... expected in the same common nature af- fected by external circumstances indefinitely varied . We all enter the world in equal ignorance , gaze round about us on the same objects , and have our first pains and pleasures , our first hopes ...
... expected in the same common nature af- fected by external circumstances indefinitely varied . We all enter the world in equal ignorance , gaze round about us on the same objects , and have our first pains and pleasures , our first hopes ...
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Page 13 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent, as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 6 - I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. If there be aught of presage in the mind, This day will be remarkable in my life By some great act, or of my days the last.
Page 154 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 30 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Page 235 - One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security, perhaps unattainable by mortals.
Page 153 - No word is naturally or intrinsically meaner than another; our opinion therefore of words, as of other things arbitrarily and capriciously established, depends wholly upon accident and custom.
Page 154 - That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold ! hold...
Page 9 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried ; but, O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 154 - ... it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence of night, invested not in common obscurity, but in the smoke of hell ? Yet the efficacy of this invocation is destroyed by the insertion of an epithet now seldom heard but in the stable, and dun° night may come or go without any other notice than contempt.
Page 92 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.