The British Essayists;: TatlerJ. 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], 1808 |
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Pagina 33
... agreeable horror . It was the scene in which that bold but wicked prince is represented as sleeping , in his tent , the night before the battle in which he fell . The poet takes that occasion to set before him , in a vision , a terrible ...
... agreeable horror . It was the scene in which that bold but wicked prince is represented as sleeping , in his tent , the night before the battle in which he fell . The poet takes that occasion to set before him , in a vision , a terrible ...
Pagina 38
... agreeable . After dinner , Miss Molly would be sure to fill my pipe for me , and put more sugar than ordinary into my coffee ; for she was sure I was good natured . If I chanced to hem , the mother would applaud my vi- gour ; and has ...
... agreeable . After dinner , Miss Molly would be sure to fill my pipe for me , and put more sugar than ordinary into my coffee ; for she was sure I was good natured . If I chanced to hem , the mother would applaud my vi- gour ; and has ...
Pagina 71
... agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her countenance , which she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endea ...
... agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her countenance , which she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endea ...
Pagina 73
... agreeable companion to the artisan , an household guardian to the fathers of families , a patron and protector of servants , an associate in all true and generous friendships . The banquets of my votaries are never costly , but always ...
... agreeable companion to the artisan , an household guardian to the fathers of families , a patron and protector of servants , an associate in all true and generous friendships . The banquets of my votaries are never costly , but always ...
Pagina 78
... agreeable images of those very things that in the books of the philosophers appear austere , and have at the best but a kind of forbidding aspect . In a word , the poets do , as it were , strew the rough paths of virtue so full of ...
... agreeable images of those very things that in the books of the philosophers appear austere , and have at the best but a kind of forbidding aspect . In a word , the poets do , as it were , strew the rough paths of virtue so full of ...
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Pagina 123 - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Pagina 150 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pagina 63 - ... for which reason, I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these diversions might turn to some profit, I found the boy had made remarks, which might be of service to him during the course of his whole life. He would tell you the mismanagements...
Pagina 80 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 168 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Pagina 62 - He would have gone on in this tender way, when the good lady entered, and, with an inexpressible sweetness in her countenance, told us she had been searching her closet for something very good, to treat such an old friend as I was. Her husband's eyes sparkled with pleasure at the cheerfulness of her countenance; and I saw all his fears vanish in an instant. The lady observing something in our looks which showed we had been more serious than ordinary, and seeing her husband receive her with great...
Pagina 123 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Pagina 59 - I cannot indeed express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither. The boys and girls strive who shall come first when they think it is I that am knocking at the door ; and that child which loses the race to me runs back again to tell the father it is Mr.
Pagina 102 - O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best...
Pagina 60 - With such reflections on little passages which happened long ago, we passed our time, during a cheerful and elegant meal. After dinner, his lady left the room, as did also the children. As soon as we were alone, he took me by the hand: "Well, my good friend...