The British Essayists;: MirrorJ. 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], 1807 |
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Pagina 7
... interest in the coun- ty of , for Mr. I told him that my engagements to the other candidate were such , that I could not possibly comply with his request . He seemed perfectly satisfied , and we parted on the best of terms ; but from ...
... interest in the coun- ty of , for Mr. I told him that my engagements to the other candidate were such , that I could not possibly comply with his request . He seemed perfectly satisfied , and we parted on the best of terms ; but from ...
Pagina 23
... interests him , he is in danger of acquiring a hardness of temper which will make him disagreeable , or a tone of mind which will render him incapable of going through the common duties of life as a friend , a relation , or a parent ...
... interests him , he is in danger of acquiring a hardness of temper which will make him disagreeable , or a tone of mind which will render him incapable of going through the common duties of life as a friend , a relation , or a parent ...
Pagina 28
... interest there will undoubtedly be heightened by the relation to persons , yet there is , exclusive of that connection altogether , a certain attachment to place and things , by which the town , the house , the room in which we live ...
... interest there will undoubtedly be heightened by the relation to persons , yet there is , exclusive of that connection altogether , a certain attachment to place and things , by which the town , the house , the room in which we live ...
Pagina 50
... interest of the small provision left me by my father , is just sufficient to furnish the necessaries of life to myself and a female domestic , who had lived long in my father's family , and insisted on attending me . As to money ...
... interest of the small provision left me by my father , is just sufficient to furnish the necessaries of life to myself and a female domestic , who had lived long in my father's family , and insisted on attending me . As to money ...
Pagina 63
... interest the mother in my favour , I made my first application to her , convinced that she could not hesitate to approve of a match which was so favourable in point of fortune . Contrary to my hopes , she at once referred me to her ...
... interest the mother in my favour , I made my first application to her , convinced that she could not hesitate to approve of a match which was so favourable in point of fortune . Contrary to my hopes , she at once referred me to her ...
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Pagina 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Pagina 180 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Pagina 180 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Pagina 114 - Umphraville's early acquaintance, who continues to reside in this city, and of whom he still retains some resemblance. That gentleman, in his youth, had applied to the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar ; but having soon after succeeded to a tolerable fortune, he derives no other benefit from his profession than an apology for residing part of the year in town, and such a general acquaintance there, as enables him to spend his time in that society -which is suited to his disposition. He...
Pagina 261 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword ; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers...
Pagina 294 - ... reparation only to the base, but to the honest is insult. He had not, however, an opportunity of accomplishing his purpose.' He learned that Venoni, soon after his daughter's elopement, removed from his former place of residence, and, as his neighbours reported, had died in one of the villages of Savoy. His daughter felt this with anguish the most poignant, and her affliction, for a while, refused consolation.
Pagina 102 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces, had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion, than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me ! when I awaked...
Pagina 290 - Sir Edward pressed to know the cause; after some hesitation she told it all. Her father had fixed on the son of a neighbour, rich in possessions, but rude in manners, for her husband. Against this match she had always protested as...
Pagina 287 - ... will own, in the intervals of recollection, how often he has suffered from the insipidity or the pain of his enjoyments ; and that, if it were not for the fear of being laughed at, it were sometimes worth while, even on the score of pleasure, to be virtuous.
Pagina 289 - But Sir Edward had now an opportunity of knowing Louisa better than from the description of her father. Music and painting, in both of which arts she was a tolerable proficient, Sir Edward had studied with success. Louisa felt a sort of pleasure from her drawings, which they had never given her before, when they were praised by Sir Edward ; and the...