The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... consider for a moment the nature and office of the people called critics . It is the nature of these people to be exceedingly dull ; and it is their office to pronounce decisively upon the merit and demerit of all works whatsoever ...
... consider for a moment the nature and office of the people called critics . It is the nature of these people to be exceedingly dull ; and it is their office to pronounce decisively upon the merit and demerit of all works whatsoever ...
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... consider the situation of this lady , with poverty to alarm , gratitude to incite , and a handsome fellow to inflame , they will allow that in a world near six thousand years old , one such instance of frailty , even in a young and ...
... consider the situation of this lady , with poverty to alarm , gratitude to incite , and a handsome fellow to inflame , they will allow that in a world near six thousand years old , one such instance of frailty , even in a young and ...
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... consider , that though Theodore had such a flaw ( in their estimation ) in his title , as to have been elected by the whole body of the people , who had thrown off the yoke of their old tyrants : yet as the Genoese had been the ...
... consider , that though Theodore had such a flaw ( in their estimation ) in his title , as to have been elected by the whole body of the people , who had thrown off the yoke of their old tyrants : yet as the Genoese had been the ...
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... considers the whole human race as his own family ; and as such a person , in a world like this , is liable to more disappointments than one who has only himself to care for , his troubles and morti- fications will assuredly be greater ...
... considers the whole human race as his own family ; and as such a person , in a world like this , is liable to more disappointments than one who has only himself to care for , his troubles and morti- fications will assuredly be greater ...
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... consider that our Chinese ornaments are not only of our own manufacture , like our French silks and our French wines , but , what has seldom been attributed to the English , of our own invention . I am , sir , Your most humble servant ...
... consider that our Chinese ornaments are not only of our own manufacture , like our French silks and our French wines , but , what has seldom been attributed to the English , of our own invention . I am , sir , Your most humble servant ...
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Page 108 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 128 - Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade thy potent voice protect thy country's fame.
Page 301 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 296 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 63 - I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject ; your man shan't stand. " ANNE, DORSET, PEMBRoKE,
Page 224 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 315 - That if we inquire into the cause of all human corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the impunity of crimes, and not from the moderation of punishments.
Page 337 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Page 254 - ... them; and thus, often misled by sounds, and not always secured by sense, they are hurried into fatal errors, which they do not give their understandings fair play enough to prevent. In explaining words, therefore, and bringing them back to their true signification, one may sometimes happen to expose and explode those errors, which the abuse of them both occasions and protects.
Page 40 - I venture to prognosticate will not attend the erroneous calculation of the present system. The day I mean is the first of April. The oldest tradition affirms that such an infatuation attends the first day of that month, as no foresight can escape, no vigilance can defeat. Deceit is successful on that day out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Grave citizens have been bit upon it; usurers have lent their money on bad security; experienced matrons have married very disappointing young fellows;...