The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 3Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 - English essays |
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... suffered my hat to rise into the air with a staring Kevenhuller , and I would as soon ap- pear in stilts , as be lifted from the ground by double soles or high heels to my shoes . I ra- ther endeavour to console myself by looking abroad ...
... suffered my hat to rise into the air with a staring Kevenhuller , and I would as soon ap- pear in stilts , as be lifted from the ground by double soles or high heels to my shoes . I ra- ther endeavour to console myself by looking abroad ...
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... suffer clouds of gloomy thoughts to come over their minds , and , however they must be allowed to be good - natured , are seldom remarkable for being good - humoured . Yet this half virtue is worth cultivation , as it bestows new charms ...
... suffer clouds of gloomy thoughts to come over their minds , and , however they must be allowed to be good - natured , are seldom remarkable for being good - humoured . Yet this half virtue is worth cultivation , as it bestows new charms ...
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... suffering all , that suffers nothing . " Life is like a game at backgammon ; and if an unlucky throw comes , we must make the best of it , and play on without grumbling at our ill luck ; but who would venture to sit down to the table ...
... suffering all , that suffers nothing . " Life is like a game at backgammon ; and if an unlucky throw comes , we must make the best of it , and play on without grumbling at our ill luck ; but who would venture to sit down to the table ...
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... suffer every hornet of the press to ruffle his temper , or dip his pen in gall , and prepare wormwood draughts to sweeten the ill blood of a cotemporary ? He that causelessly and malignantly traduces another , writes a libel on himself ...
... suffer every hornet of the press to ruffle his temper , or dip his pen in gall , and prepare wormwood draughts to sweeten the ill blood of a cotemporary ? He that causelessly and malignantly traduces another , writes a libel on himself ...
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... suffered during his confinement ; but the empire of the universe would not bribe me to injure him farther , nor tempt me , by an infamous sacrifice of his life , to consult the safety of my own . Here then , my lord , I claim his ...
... suffered during his confinement ; but the empire of the universe would not bribe me to injure him farther , nor tempt me , by an infamous sacrifice of his life , to consult the safety of my own . Here then , my lord , I claim his ...
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Page 236 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 236 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 236 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 149 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 160 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, -And made so welcome at their simple feast...
Page 149 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
Page 201 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
Page 54 - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
Page 151 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 37 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.