The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 - English essays |
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... observation so true , that I shall not enlarge upon it . One would wonder that more of our Christian poets have not turned their thoughts this way , especially if we con- sider , that our idea of the Supreme Being is not only infinitely ...
... observation so true , that I shall not enlarge upon it . One would wonder that more of our Christian poets have not turned their thoughts this way , especially if we con- sider , that our idea of the Supreme Being is not only infinitely ...
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... observe by their sailing , and the counte- nances of the ruddy virgins , who were supercargoes , the part of the town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning ...
... observe by their sailing , and the counte- nances of the ruddy virgins , who were supercargoes , the part of the town to which they were bound . There was an air in the purveyors for Covent- garden , who frequently converse with morning ...
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... observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches , pins , and wires , on each side of the counters , was an amusement in which I could longer have indulged ...
... observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches , pins , and wires , on each side of the counters , was an amusement in which I could longer have indulged ...
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... observed the great variety of improve- ments in plants and flowers , beyond what they other- wise would have been ... observe the smooth shining Italian leaves , the nimble French aspen always in motion 12 N ° 455 . SPECTATOR .
... observed the great variety of improve- ments in plants and flowers , beyond what they other- wise would have been ... observe the smooth shining Italian leaves , the nimble French aspen always in motion 12 N ° 455 . SPECTATOR .
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... observed , like their other perfumes , to be too strong , and to hurt the brain ; that of the French with glaring gaudy colours , yet faint and languid : German and northern flowers have little or no smell , or sometimes an unpleasant ...
... observed , like their other perfumes , to be too strong , and to hurt the brain ; that of the French with glaring gaudy colours , yet faint and languid : German and northern flowers have little or no smell , or sometimes an unpleasant ...
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Page 84 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 90 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 167 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 49 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 166 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.
Page 158 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Page 158 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Page 56 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 56 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 89 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.