The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 - English essays |
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... rest of the world ; and how is it possible for a man to be otherwise than uneasy in himself , who is in danger every moment of losing his entire exist- ence and dropping into nothing ? The vicious man and atheist have therefore no ...
... rest of the world ; and how is it possible for a man to be otherwise than uneasy in himself , who is in danger every moment of losing his entire exist- ence and dropping into nothing ? The vicious man and atheist have therefore no ...
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... rest with plea sure . It will become me better to pray to God to restore us to the power of obtaining such a peace as will be to his glory , the safety , honour , and welfare of the queen and her dominions , and the general satisfaction ...
... rest with plea sure . It will become me better to pray to God to restore us to the power of obtaining such a peace as will be to his glory , the safety , honour , and welfare of the queen and her dominions , and the general satisfaction ...
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... rest of the com- pany , you equally hurt him . I was going to say , the true art of being agree- able in company ( but there can be no such thing as art in it ) is to appear well pleased with those you are engaged with , and rather to ...
... rest of the com- pany , you equally hurt him . I was going to say , the true art of being agree- able in company ( but there can be no such thing as art in it ) is to appear well pleased with those you are engaged with , and rather to ...
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... rest : So if my Love , with happy influence , shed His eyes ' bright sunshine on his lover's head , ' Then shall the rose of Sharon's field , And whitest lilies , to my beauties yield . " Then fairest flow'rs with studious art combine ...
... rest : So if my Love , with happy influence , shed His eyes ' bright sunshine on his lover's head , ' Then shall the rose of Sharon's field , And whitest lilies , to my beauties yield . " Then fairest flow'rs with studious art combine ...
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... rest ; for which reason I am afraid , after having discharged our atheists , we might possibly think of shooting off our sectaries ; and as one does not fore- see the vicissitudes of human affairs , it might one time or other come to a ...
... rest ; for which reason I am afraid , after having discharged our atheists , we might possibly think of shooting off our sectaries ; and as one does not fore- see the vicissitudes of human affairs , it might one time or other come to a ...
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Page 131 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision...
Page 2 - Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. 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 does 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...
Page 199 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 132 - Besides, the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage above those of the understanding, that they are more obvious, and more easy to be acquired: it is but opening the eye, and the scene enters...
Page 73 - ... shame; then shall you see either mine innocence cleared, your suspicion and conscience satisfied, the ignominy and slander of the world stopped, or my guilt openly declared.
Page 262 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 133 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Page 84 - Sedley* has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; liaise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day.
Page 149 - They have a word, it seems, in their language, by which they express the particular beauty of a plantation that thus strikes the imagination at first sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect.
Page 141 - One of the final causes of our delight in any thing that is great may be this. The Supreme Author of our being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its last, adequate and proper happiness. Because therefore a great part of our happiness must arise from the contemplation of his being, that he might give our souls a just relish of such a contemplation, he has made them naturally delight in the apprehension of what is great or unlimited.