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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... Rule of Poetical Justice . 78. Letter from John Hearty , giving an Account of his Suf- ferings from an extreme Propensity to Friendship . 124 79. Integer on negatively good Men - Scheme of a News- paper to relate what Things are not ...
... Rule of Poetical Justice . 78. Letter from John Hearty , giving an Account of his Suf- ferings from an extreme Propensity to Friendship . 124 79. Integer on negatively good Men - Scheme of a News- paper to relate what Things are not ...
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... regulating our Conduct by the Rules of ro- mantic Sentiment - Story of Emilia 102. Moderatus , on the Character of a Man of Spirit- 270 Reflections on Female Spirit · • 278 No . Page 103. Letter from Simon Softly , containing CONTENTS .
... regulating our Conduct by the Rules of ro- mantic Sentiment - Story of Emilia 102. Moderatus , on the Character of a Man of Spirit- 270 Reflections on Female Spirit · • 278 No . Page 103. Letter from Simon Softly , containing CONTENTS .
Pagina 80
... passions , vanity , ambition , and avarice . Antonio , I am afraid , did not form an exception to the rule . Though naturally an economist , his • mode of life had considerably impaired his fortune . 80 N ° 70 . THE MIRROR .
... passions , vanity , ambition , and avarice . Antonio , I am afraid , did not form an exception to the rule . Though naturally an economist , his • mode of life had considerably impaired his fortune . 80 N ° 70 . THE MIRROR .
Pagina 116
... rule to fill and drink his glass when and how he pleased ; • and that , as he had already gone greater lengths than usual , Mr. Melfort must excuse him if he did not now depart from it . ' I saw that Mr. Umphraville was now heartily ...
... rule to fill and drink his glass when and how he pleased ; • and that , as he had already gone greater lengths than usual , Mr. Melfort must excuse him if he did not now depart from it . ' I saw that Mr. Umphraville was now heartily ...
Pagina 122
... disregard what are called the rules of poetical justice . To his defence of that practice , I think we may add one argument , which * Sec Elements of Criticism . seems to have escaped him , drawn from the effect 122 N ° 77 . THE MIRROR .
... disregard what are called the rules of poetical justice . To his defence of that practice , I think we may add one argument , which * Sec Elements of Criticism . seems to have escaped him , drawn from the effect 122 N ° 77 . THE MIRROR .
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acquaintance acquired admiration affections agreeable amidst amusements Antonio appear attended battle of Culloden beauty bestow called character circumstances conduct conversation Daniel Higgs death dinner dreams Duke of Cumberland eclogue elegant Emilia endeavoured equally fashion father favour FEBRUARY 19 feelings Figure-making flattered Flint fortune frequently friends friendship genius gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour imagination indulge JANUARY 25 King of Prussia ladies language lately learned live lively colours look manner marriage melancholy Melfort ment merit mind MIRROR Miss Juliana nature neighbour never nonsense verses object obliged observed paper passions perhaps persons pleasure possessed racter received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sentiments shew sign-post situation society soon sort spirit taste TATLER thing thought tion torrent streams town trifles TUESDAY Umphraville uneasiness virtue writing XXXV young
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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...