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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... appear in- deed more speculative , but are less instructive . In a word , sir , I would have you turn your thoughts to the advantage of such as want you most ; and shew that simplicity , innocence , industry , and tem- perance , are ...
... appear in- deed more speculative , but are less instructive . In a word , sir , I would have you turn your thoughts to the advantage of such as want you most ; and shew that simplicity , innocence , industry , and tem- perance , are ...
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... appear in to charm me ! to me . But then it immediately occurs to me , that a man of his circumstances is so much the poorer . Upon the whole , I have at last examined both these desires of love and avarice , and upon strictly weigh ...
... appear in to charm me ! to me . But then it immediately occurs to me , that a man of his circumstances is so much the poorer . Upon the whole , I have at last examined both these desires of love and avarice , and upon strictly weigh ...
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... regards my present purpose is as fol- lows : Avoid disputes as much as possible . In order to VOL . IX . Part . i . cant . 1. ver . 69 , 70 . C appear easy and well - bred in conversation , you No 197 . SPECTATOR . 13.
... regards my present purpose is as fol- lows : Avoid disputes as much as possible . In order to VOL . IX . Part . i . cant . 1. ver . 69 , 70 . C appear easy and well - bred in conversation , you No 197 . SPECTATOR . 13.
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Alexander Chalmers. appear easy and well - bred in conversation , you may assure yourself that it requires more wit , as well as more good humour , to improve than to contradict the notions of another : but if you are at any time obliged ...
Alexander Chalmers. appear easy and well - bred in conversation , you may assure yourself that it requires more wit , as well as more good humour , to improve than to contradict the notions of another : but if you are at any time obliged ...
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... appears in no way so much as in the domestic part of life . It is ordinary to feed their humours into unnatural excrescences , if I may so speak , and , make their whole being a wayward and uneasy con- dition , for want of the obvious ...
... appears in no way so much as in the domestic part of life . It is ordinary to feed their humours into unnatural excrescences , if I may so speak , and , make their whole being a wayward and uneasy con- dition , for want of the obvious ...
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Page 130 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Page 255 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 273 - Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze...
Page 145 - Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare.
Page 274 - 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 100 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...
Page 227 - ... and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms. As virtue in general is of an amiable and lovely nature, there are some particular kinds of it which are more so than others, and these are such as dispose us to do good to mankind. Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues: but those which make a man popular and beloved, are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities that render...
Page 2 - ... till such time as he should sweat ; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic.
Page 255 - Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides: Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 147 - Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.