The British Essayists: RamblerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... seldom despised but when they deserve Contempt . 78. The Power of Novelty - Mortality too familiar to raise Apprehensions . 79. A suspicious Man justly suspected . 80. Variety necessary to Happiness . - a Winter Scene . 81. The great ...
... seldom despised but when they deserve Contempt . 78. The Power of Novelty - Mortality too familiar to raise Apprehensions . 79. A suspicious Man justly suspected . 80. Variety necessary to Happiness . - a Winter Scene . 81. The great ...
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... seldom received with great ardour of kindness , I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the contagion of impatience , and produce anger rather than tenderness . I write not merely to vent the swelling ...
... seldom received with great ardour of kindness , I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the contagion of impatience , and produce anger rather than tenderness . I write not merely to vent the swelling ...
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... seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves ; it is necessary , therefore , to cultivate an habitual alacrity and cheerfulness , that in whatever state we may be placed by Providence , whether we are appointed to confer ...
... seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves ; it is necessary , therefore , to cultivate an habitual alacrity and cheerfulness , that in whatever state we may be placed by Providence , whether we are appointed to confer ...
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... seldom deprives him of his own favour . Those , indeed , who can see only external facts , may look upon him with abhorrence , but when he calls himself to his own tribunal he finds every fault , if not absolutely effaced , yet so much ...
... seldom deprives him of his own favour . Those , indeed , who can see only external facts , may look upon him with abhorrence , but when he calls himself to his own tribunal he finds every fault , if not absolutely effaced , yet so much ...
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... seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men celebrated for theoretic wisdom live with conformity to their precepts must be readily confessed ; and we cannot wonder that the indigna- tion of mankind rises with ...
... seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men celebrated for theoretic wisdom live with conformity to their precepts must be readily confessed ; and we cannot wonder that the indigna- tion of mankind rises with ...
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Ajax amusements attention beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt curiosity danger death delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discover DRYDEN duty easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes falsehood fancy favour fear felicity flattered fluence folly fortune frequently friends Gabba genius gratifications happiness heart honour hope hopes and fears hour human idleness imagination inclined inquiry Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind marriage ment Milton mind miscarriages misery nature necessary neglected negligence neral ness never numbers observed once opinion ourselves OVID Oxus pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets praise precepts pride racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach satiety SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophism suffer surely syllables tenderness thing thought tion torpid truth TUESDAY turally vanity verse Virgil virtue writers Zebe
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Page 117 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 120 - Transform'd : but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy :' I fled, and cried out Death ; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Page 192 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 109 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 354 - ... and such pleasures only imparted as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be lost; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude. An elevated genius employed in little things appears, to use the simile of Longinus, like the sun in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less.
Page 96 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Page 32 - ... himself is ready to fall; not that he is more willing to die than formerly, but that he is more familiar to the death of others, and therefore is not alarmed so far as to consider how much nearer he approaches to his end.
Page 73 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 162 - ... opportunities for dexterity or courage, since, though none could retreat back from danger, yet they might often avoid it by oblique direction. It was, however, not very common to steer with much care or prudence; for, by some universal infatuation...
Page 118 - The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.