The British Essayists: WorldJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... soon after I came from college , and left me master of seventeen hundred pounds . With this sum , which I thought a very great one , I came up to town , took lodgings in Leicester - Fields , put a narrow lace upon my frock , learnt to ...
... soon after I came from college , and left me master of seventeen hundred pounds . With this sum , which I thought a very great one , I came up to town , took lodgings in Leicester - Fields , put a narrow lace upon my frock , learnt to ...
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... soon found a fable to my mind , and was making a considerable progress in the work , when I received intelligence that my old friend and companion was just returned from Ja- maica , where he had married a planter's widow of immense ...
... soon found a fable to my mind , and was making a considerable progress in the work , when I received intelligence that my old friend and companion was just returned from Ja- maica , where he had married a planter's widow of immense ...
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... soon persuaded to replace herself upon the bench , and to admit him at her side . Wilson , who was really heart- struck , made her a thousand protestations of esteem and friendship ; conjuring her to tell him if his for- tune or ...
... soon persuaded to replace herself upon the bench , and to admit him at her side . Wilson , who was really heart- struck , made her a thousand protestations of esteem and friendship ; conjuring her to tell him if his for- tune or ...
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... soon visible in the lady's shape ; a circumstance that greatly added to the happiness of Wilson . He determined to re- move her to town ; and accordingly took the house near St. James's , where Mrs. Wilson had seen him enter , and where ...
... soon visible in the lady's shape ; a circumstance that greatly added to the happiness of Wilson . He determined to re- move her to town ; and accordingly took the house near St. James's , where Mrs. Wilson had seen him enter , and where ...
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... soon discovered to be too in- sipid and unmeaning . By degrees whole meadows of cattle , of the same brittle materials , spread them- selves over the whole table ; cottages rose in sugar , and temples in barley - sugar ; pigmy Neptunes ...
... soon discovered to be too in- sipid and unmeaning . By degrees whole meadows of cattle , of the same brittle materials , spread them- selves over the whole table ; cottages rose in sugar , and temples in barley - sugar ; pigmy Neptunes ...
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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;...