The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. 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 - English essays |
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... truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions ( as they are called ) put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses compounded of hugs and slaps and squeezes , more resembling the gambols of a bear than the actions of a ...
... truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions ( as they are called ) put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses compounded of hugs and slaps and squeezes , more resembling the gambols of a bear than the actions of a ...
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... truth and honesty , is doubtless a very meritorious quality , but experience teaches that it is too fre- quently under bad management , and obtruded on society out of time and season in such a manner as to be highly inconvenient and ...
... truth and honesty , is doubtless a very meritorious quality , but experience teaches that it is too fre- quently under bad management , and obtruded on society out of time and season in such a manner as to be highly inconvenient and ...
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... truth , which all the world except themselves has discovered long ago , viz . That a proud man is the most contemptible being in nature . ' Now if these proud men to whom I ad- dress myself , and for whose miserable situation I have ...
... truth , which all the world except themselves has discovered long ago , viz . That a proud man is the most contemptible being in nature . ' Now if these proud men to whom I ad- dress myself , and for whose miserable situation I have ...
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... truth , that so far from being annoyed and made splenetic as some folks are , when I fall into company with a proud fellow creature , I feel no other impulse than of pity , with now and then a small propensity to titter , for it would ...
... truth , that so far from being annoyed and made splenetic as some folks are , when I fall into company with a proud fellow creature , I feel no other impulse than of pity , with now and then a small propensity to titter , for it would ...
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... humble , it is not possible for the proud man to descend amongst them for information and society ; if truth does not hang within his reach , he will never dive into a well to fetch it up : His errors , like some 32 N ° 56 . OBSERVER .
... humble , it is not possible for the proud man to descend amongst them for information and society ; if truth does not hang within his reach , he will never dive into a well to fetch it up : His errors , like some 32 N ° 56 . OBSERVER .
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Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 127 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...
Page 129 - I hear a knocking At the south entry : retire we to our chamber : A little water clears us of this deed : How easy is it, then ! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.
Page 110 - I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 213 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
Page 93 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.