The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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Pagina 5
... Death of Sir Roger de Coverley . 518. Letters on Epitaphs University Physiognomy 519. Meditation on animal Life STEELE . ADDISON . STEELE . ..... ORATOR HENLEY ADDISON . FRANCHAM STEELE . ..... 520. On the death of a beloved Wife ...
... Death of Sir Roger de Coverley . 518. Letters on Epitaphs University Physiognomy 519. Meditation on animal Life STEELE . ADDISON . STEELE . ..... ORATOR HENLEY ADDISON . FRANCHAM STEELE . ..... 520. On the death of a beloved Wife ...
Pagina 18
... death , or to our defence ? Yes ; our great God never gave one to reign by his permission , but he gave to another also to reign by his grace . All the circumstances of the illustrious life of our prince seem to have conspired to make ...
... death , or to our defence ? Yes ; our great God never gave one to reign by his permission , but he gave to another also to reign by his grace . All the circumstances of the illustrious life of our prince seem to have conspired to make ...
Pagina 21
... death , which has afflicted the whole country , as well as his poor servants , who loved him , I may say , better than we did our lives . I am afraid he caught his death the last county - sessions , where he would go to see justice done ...
... death , which has afflicted the whole country , as well as his poor servants , who loved him , I may say , better than we did our lives . I am afraid he caught his death the last county - sessions , where he would go to see justice done ...
Pagina 22
... death , he shook him by the hand , and wished him joy of the estate which was fall- -ing to him , desiring him only to make a good use of it and to pay the several legacies , and the gifts of charity , which he told him he had left as ...
... death , he shook him by the hand , and wished him joy of the estate which was fall- -ing to him , desiring him only to make a good use of it and to pay the several legacies , and the gifts of charity , which he told him he had left as ...
Pagina 24
... death of good sir Roger , and do heartily condole with you upon so melancholy an occasion . I think you ought to have blackened the edges of a paper which brought us so ill news , and to have had it stamped likewise in black . It is ...
... death of good sir Roger , and do heartily condole with you upon so melancholy an occasion . I think you ought to have blackened the edges of a paper which brought us so ill news , and to have had it stamped likewise in black . It is ...
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Pagina 249 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 131 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 130 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pagina 33 - Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 20 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Pagina 22 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Pagina 244 - ... that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty, which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded, and disposed among softer lights, than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Pagina 248 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Pagina 222 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.
Pagina 249 - ... omniscience every uncomfortable thought vanishes. He cannot but regard every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion : for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...