The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. 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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... common wing shall bear My rising body through the air . THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude . It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance ...
... common wing shall bear My rising body through the air . THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude . It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance ...
Pagina 8
... common dunners do in making them pay . The day of people of fashion began now to break , and carts and hacks were mingled with equipages of show and vanity ; when I resolved to walk it , out of cheapness ; but my unhappy curiosity is ...
... common dunners do in making them pay . The day of people of fashion began now to break , and carts and hacks were mingled with equipages of show and vanity ; when I resolved to walk it , out of cheapness ; but my unhappy curiosity is ...
Pagina 10
... common scene of Covent - garden , and passed the evening at Will's in attending the discourses of several sets of people , who relieved each other within my hearing on the subjects of cards , dice , love , learning , and politics . The ...
... common scene of Covent - garden , and passed the evening at Will's in attending the discourses of several sets of people , who relieved each other within my hearing on the subjects of cards , dice , love , learning , and politics . The ...
Pagina 11
... well carried on , that it cannot but be very pleasing to those who have a taste of good writing ; and the other billets may have their use in common life . • Mr. SPECTATOR , As I walked the other day N455 . 11 SPECTATOR .
... well carried on , that it cannot but be very pleasing to those who have a taste of good writing ; and the other billets may have their use in common life . • Mr. SPECTATOR , As I walked the other day N455 . 11 SPECTATOR .
Pagina 16
... hands of filthy dungeon villains , And thrown amongst the common lumber . ' Nothing indeed can be more unhappy than the condition of bankruptcy . The calamity which hap- pens to us by ill fortune , or by the 16 N456 . SPECTATOR .
... hands of filthy dungeon villains , And thrown amongst the common lumber . ' Nothing indeed can be more unhappy than the condition of bankruptcy . The calamity which hap- pens to us by ill fortune , or by the 16 N456 . SPECTATOR .
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Pagina 84 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Pagina 90 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Pagina 167 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble." "They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Pagina 49 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Pagina 166 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.
Pagina 158 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Pagina 158 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.
Pagina 56 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Pagina 56 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Pagina 89 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.