The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volume 2Lionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Pagina 3
... meaning to be , that one who insures a real value upon an ima- ginary thing , is said to sell a bear , and is the same thing as a promise among courtiers , or a vow be- tween lovers . I have writ to my brother to hasten to town ; and ...
... meaning to be , that one who insures a real value upon an ima- ginary thing , is said to sell a bear , and is the same thing as a promise among courtiers , or a vow be- tween lovers . I have writ to my brother to hasten to town ; and ...
Pagina 8
... mean time gives her service to the parties . It is to be noted , that when any part of this paper appears dull , there is a design in it . N ° 39. SATURDAY , JULY 9 , 1709 . Quicquid agunt homines- nostri est farrago libelli . Juv . Sat ...
... mean time gives her service to the parties . It is to be noted , that when any part of this paper appears dull , there is a design in it . N ° 39. SATURDAY , JULY 9 , 1709 . Quicquid agunt homines- nostri est farrago libelli . Juv . Sat ...
Pagina 10
... mean world , and the cares of fortune : for I was obliged to be in London against the seventh day of the term , and accord- ingly governed myself by my Oxford almanack * , and came last night ; but find , to my great asto- nishment ...
... mean world , and the cares of fortune : for I was obliged to be in London against the seventh day of the term , and accord- ingly governed myself by my Oxford almanack * , and came last night ; but find , to my great asto- nishment ...
Pagina 13
... mean abstracted from all punctos or whims of honour ) , should ride the wooden horse in the Tilt- yard for such first offence ; for the second stand in the pillory ; and for the third be prisoner in Bed- lam for life . Col. Plume . I ...
... mean abstracted from all punctos or whims of honour ) , should ride the wooden horse in the Tilt- yard for such first offence ; for the second stand in the pillory ; and for the third be prisoner in Bed- lam for life . Col. Plume . I ...
Pagina 24
... mean matrimony , which I hear so much decried , that it was with no small labour I maintained my ground against two op- ponents ; but , as your brother observed of Socrates , I drew them into my conclusion , from their own concessions ...
... mean matrimony , which I hear so much decried , that it was with no small labour I maintained my ground against two op- ponents ; but , as your brother observed of Socrates , I drew them into my conclusion , from their own concessions ...
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Pagina 278 - Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Pagina 42 - Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Pagina 110 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Pagina 71 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt...
Pagina 277 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Pagina 236 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away...
Pagina 288 - They here began to breathe a delicious kind of ether, and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of purple light...
Pagina 286 - ... others telescopes, and others pencils; some had laurels on their heads, and others buskins on their legs : in short, there was scarce any instrument of a mechanic art or liberal science which was not made use of on this occasion. My good...
Pagina 292 - I desired my guide, for variety, to lead me to the fabulous apartment, the roof of which was painted with gorgons, chimeras, and centaurs, with many other emblematical figures, which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle. The first table was almost full: at the upper end sat Hercules, leaning an arm upon his club...
Pagina 208 - ... nation, these shall be unmentioned ; provided we hear no more of such practices, and that they shall not from henceforward suffer the society of such as they know to be the common enemies of order, discipline, and virtue. If it appear that they go on in encouraging them, they must be proceeded against according to the severest rules of history, where all is to be laid before the world with impartiality, and •without respect to persons, ' So let the stricken deer go weep.