The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. 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 |
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... feel , at the same time , that the pursuit of this object , and the expectation of this change , can increase it in ... feels that the posses- sion of the object of his most earnest desires has given him far less pleasure than was ...
... feel , at the same time , that the pursuit of this object , and the expectation of this change , can increase it in ... feels that the posses- sion of the object of his most earnest desires has given him far less pleasure than was ...
Pagina 17
... feeling and appear- ance ; the latter , at least , is within the power of ⚫art and education , and to regulate it is the duty of a well - bred person . On this truly philosophical principle is founded that ease , indifference , or non ...
... feeling and appear- ance ; the latter , at least , is within the power of ⚫art and education , and to regulate it is the duty of a well - bred person . On this truly philosophical principle is founded that ease , indifference , or non ...
Pagina 20
Alexander Chalmers. insist , as , among well bred people , the feeling it- self is quite in disuse . Love is one of those passions which politeness lays us under a particular obligation to disguise , as the discovery of it to third ...
Alexander Chalmers. insist , as , among well bred people , the feeling it- self is quite in disuse . Love is one of those passions which politeness lays us under a particular obligation to disguise , as the discovery of it to third ...
Pagina 26
... , admit of an exception , when re- ligion is only introduced as a feeling not a system , as appealing to the sentiments of the heart , not to the disquisitions of the head . The following story holds 26 No 42 . THE MIRROR .
... , admit of an exception , when re- ligion is only introduced as a feeling not a system , as appealing to the sentiments of the heart , not to the disquisitions of the head . The following story holds 26 No 42 . THE MIRROR .
Pagina 28
... feel- ing but the mildness of his manners has been al- lowed by all ; and it is certain , that if he was not easily melted into compassion , it was , at least , not difficult to awaken his benevolence . : One morning , while he sat ...
... feel- ing but the mildness of his manners has been al- lowed by all ; and it is certain , that if he was not easily melted into compassion , it was , at least , not difficult to awaken his benevolence . : One morning , while he sat ...
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acquainted acquired admiration agreeable amusements Antonio attention Baucis and Philemon beauty better Blubber brother Caieta character conduct conversation daugh daughter death Dick Hazard dinner discourse dreams effect elegant Emilia endeavour engaged entertainment Eubulus fashion father favour feelings felt former fortune friendship gentle gentleman give happy heard heart Helvetius honour Horatio idea imitation indulge ipecacuanha JULY 20 Lady Anne Laurentum Leonora Licinius lived look lounger manner ment merit mind Minthe MIRROR nature never object observed opinion Othello passions perhaps person philosopher pleased pleasure poet polite possessed Quinquina racter received remarks render Robert Morley Roche SATURDAY scene Scotland seemed sensibility sentiments shew siege of Limerick sister situation society soon specta talk taste thing thought tion took town TUESDAY Umphraville virtue Voltaire wished XXXVI young lady Zara Zayre
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Pagina 25 - s making inquiry who was the person they had been burying ? one of them, with an accent more mournful than is common to their profession, answered, " Then you knew not Mademoiselle, Sir ?— you never beheld a lovelier" —
Pagina 19 - ... times, with the culture and accomplishment of the most refined ones ; every better feeling warm and vivid, every ungentle one repressed or overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession of such a child.
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Pagina 16 - ... week he was able to thank his benefactor. By that time his host had learned the name and character of his guest. He was a Protestant clergyman of Switzerland, called La Roche, a widower, who had lately buried his wife, after a long and lingering illness, for which travelling had been prescribed, and was now returning home, after an ineffectual and melancholy journey, with his only child, the daughter we have mentioned.