The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Pagina 1
... . James's . As I guessed , when I first saw her at church , her business is to win hearts , and throw them away , re- garding nothing but the triumph . I have had the happiness , by tracing her through all with whom I XIV . B.
... . James's . As I guessed , when I first saw her at church , her business is to win hearts , and throw them away , re- garding nothing but the triumph . I have had the happiness , by tracing her through all with whom I XIV . B.
Pagina 2
Lionel Thomas Berguer. happiness , by tracing her through all with whom I heard she was acquainted , to find one who was in- timate with a friend of mine , and to be introduced to her notice . I have made so good a use of my time , as to ...
Lionel Thomas Berguer. happiness , by tracing her through all with whom I heard she was acquainted , to find one who was in- timate with a friend of mine , and to be introduced to her notice . I have made so good a use of my time , as to ...
Pagina 3
... happiness of being the other night where we made six couple , and every woman's partner a professed lover of mine . The wildest imagination cannot form to itself , on any occasion , higher delight than I acknowledge myself to have been ...
... happiness of being the other night where we made six couple , and every woman's partner a professed lover of mine . The wildest imagination cannot form to itself , on any occasion , higher delight than I acknowledge myself to have been ...
Pagina 7
... happiness is founded in their want of power , the other's in their want of desire to oppose him . The one enjoys the summit of fortune with the luxury of a Persian , the other with the moderation of a Spartan . One is made to oppress ...
... happiness is founded in their want of power , the other's in their want of desire to oppose him . The one enjoys the summit of fortune with the luxury of a Persian , the other with the moderation of a Spartan . One is made to oppress ...
Pagina 21
... rest would have enjoyed the happiness of exist- ence : he has , therefore , specified in his creation every degree of life , every capacity of being . The whole chasm in nature , from a plant to a N ° 519 . 21 SPECTATOR .
... rest would have enjoyed the happiness of exist- ence : he has , therefore , specified in his creation every degree of life , every capacity of being . The whole chasm in nature , from a plant to a N ° 519 . 21 SPECTATOR .
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Pagina 118 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Pagina 117 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 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 12 - 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 197 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Pagina 118 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.
Pagina 113 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to 'small purpose yron wedges made; Those be unquiet thoughts, that carefull minds invade.
Pagina 118 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Pagina 202 - The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features: one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one.
Pagina 228 - 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 119 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?