The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the Edinburgh ReviewA. Hart, 1852 - English essays |
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... death of Queen Anne , however , which happened on the 1st of August thereafter , speedily composed all those dissensions , and confounded the victors and the vanquished in one common proscription . Among the most miserable and downcast ...
... death of Queen Anne , however , which happened on the 1st of August thereafter , speedily composed all those dissensions , and confounded the victors and the vanquished in one common proscription . Among the most miserable and downcast ...
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... death of Vanessa had removed all fear of its afflicting or irritating that unhappy rival . This tragical event , of which Swift was as directly and as guiltily the cause , as if he had plunged a dagger into her heart , is described with ...
... death of Vanessa had removed all fear of its afflicting or irritating that unhappy rival . This tragical event , of which Swift was as directly and as guiltily the cause , as if he had plunged a dagger into her heart , is described with ...
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... death , and don't suffer me to live a life like a languishing death , which is the only life I can lead , if you have lost any of your tenderness for me . " - Vol . xix . pp . 441 , 442 . " Tell me sincerely , if you have once wished ...
... death , and don't suffer me to live a life like a languishing death , which is the only life I can lead , if you have lost any of your tenderness for me . " - Vol . xix . pp . 441 , 442 . " Tell me sincerely , if you have once wished ...
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... death , a scene passed between the Dean and her , an account of which I had from my father , and which I shall relate with reluctance , as it seems to bear more hard on Swift's humanity than any other part of his conduct in life . As ...
... death , a scene passed between the Dean and her , an account of which I had from my father , and which I shall relate with reluctance , as it seems to bear more hard on Swift's humanity than any other part of his conduct in life . As ...
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... death , in which , however , the great charm arises , as we have just stated , from the singular ease and exactness with which he has imitated the style of ordinary society , and the neatness with which he has brought together and ...
... death , in which , however , the great charm arises , as we have just stated , from the singular ease and exactness with which he has imitated the style of ordinary society , and the neatness with which he has brought together and ...
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Popular passages
Page 313 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 358 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 314 - Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue : if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...
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Page 314 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 341 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
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Page 312 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Page 364 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 383 - Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman...