The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 - English essays |
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... Town - Translation of a Chapter in Canticles STEELE . and probably TICKELL . 411-421 . Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagi- nation ADDISON . 422. On Raillery - Characters of Callisthenes , Acetus , and Minutius ..... STEELE . 423 ...
... Town - Translation of a Chapter in Canticles STEELE . and probably TICKELL . 411-421 . Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagi- nation ADDISON . 422. On Raillery - Characters of Callisthenes , Acetus , and Minutius ..... STEELE . 423 ...
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... town who are directly impudent , and make up for it no otherwise than by calling themselves such , and exulting in it . But this sort of carriage , which prompts a man against rules to urge what he has a mind to , is pardonable only ...
... town who are directly impudent , and make up for it no otherwise than by calling themselves such , and exulting in it . But this sort of carriage , which prompts a man against rules to urge what he has a mind to , is pardonable only ...
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... town ; where one party , and in some cases both , is sensible of being on the faulty side , and have not spirit enough to acknowledge it . Among the ladies the case is very common ; for there are very few of them who know that it is to ...
... town ; where one party , and in some cases both , is sensible of being on the faulty side , and have not spirit enough to acknowledge it . Among the ladies the case is very common ; for there are very few of them who know that it is to ...
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... town . The fifty new churches will very much mend the prospect ; but church - work is slow , church - work is slow . ' I do not remember I have any where mention- ed in Sir Roger's character , his custom of salut- ing every body that ...
... town . The fifty new churches will very much mend the prospect ; but church - work is slow , church - work is slow . ' I do not remember I have any where mention- ed in Sir Roger's character , his custom of salut- ing every body that ...
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... town will take his place and tell you , Mrs. Such - a - one is charmingly hand- some , because he just now saw her . But I think I need not dwell on this subject , since I have acknowledged there can be no rules made for ex- celling ...
... town will take his place and tell you , Mrs. Such - a - one is charmingly hand- some , because he just now saw her . But I think I need not dwell on this subject , since I have acknowledged there can be no rules made for ex- celling ...
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Page 281 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 79 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty perform your command.
Page 155 - If the Products of Nature rise in Value, according as they more or less resemble those of Art, we may be sure that artificial Works receive a greater Advantage from their Resemblance of such as are natural ; because here the Similitude is not only pleasant, but the Pattern more perfect.
Page 80 - My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your Grace's displeasure, and that it may not touch the innocent souls of those poor gentlemen who, as I understand, are likewise in strait imprisonment for my sake. If ever I have found favour in your sight, if ever the name of Anne Boleyn hath been pleasing in your ears, then let me obtain this request...
Page 177 - When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little pleased to think we are in no danger of them. We consider them, at the same time, as dreadful and harmless; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety.
Page 186 - But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and...
Page 181 - Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure in general, there are many intellectual beings in the world besides ourselves, and. several species of spirits, who are subject to different laws and oeconomies from those of mankind; when we see, therefore, any of these represented naturally...
Page 138 - I here mean such as arise from visible Objects, either when we have them actually in our View, or when we call up their Ideas into our Minds by Paintings, Statues, Descriptions, or any the like Occasion...
Page 9 - Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 150 - ... delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods., and meadows, and at the same time hears the warbling of birds and the purling of streams ; but upon the finishing of some secret spell the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath or in a solitary desert.