The British Essayists, Volume 35Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1807 |
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Pagina 21
... heard a story of an eminent philosopher who was invited to dine and spend the evening with some of the most distinguished men for learning and genius of the age in which he lived . Dinner being over , the conversation took a light and ...
... heard a story of an eminent philosopher who was invited to dine and spend the evening with some of the most distinguished men for learning and genius of the age in which he lived . Dinner being over , the conversation took a light and ...
Pagina 24
... heard my father - in - law men- tion , ' says Crassus , that his kinsman Lælius , and the great Scipio , were frequently wont to fly from the hurry of business and the bustle of the town to a quiet retreat in the country , and there to ...
... heard my father - in - law men- tion , ' says Crassus , that his kinsman Lælius , and the great Scipio , were frequently wont to fly from the hurry of business and the bustle of the town to a quiet retreat in the country , and there to ...
Pagina 26
... heard him express himself , that every country can afford a king for itself , he had almost submitted to the modern plan of gardening a few years ago , on being put in mind , that the fashion of hedges and ter- races was brought in by ...
... heard him express himself , that every country can afford a king for itself , he had almost submitted to the modern plan of gardening a few years ago , on being put in mind , that the fashion of hedges and ter- races was brought in by ...
Pagina 30
... heard , I know not how , that their husbands lay concealed near my father's Chateau . They came and searched , and actually discovered the lurking - place . Unfortunately they brought a good many children along with them ; and , as we ...
... heard , I know not how , that their husbands lay concealed near my father's Chateau . They came and searched , and actually discovered the lurking - place . Unfortunately they brought a good many children along with them ; and , as we ...
Pagina 33
... heard them , afterwards afforded matter for much serious reflection . It is wonderful that any one should tell things im- possible , with the hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have related , must have ...
... heard them , afterwards afforded matter for much serious reflection . It is wonderful that any one should tell things im- possible , with the hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have related , must have ...
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acquaintance acquired admiration affections agreeable allowed amidst amusements appearance attended battle of Culloden bestow called character circumstances conduct conversation desire dinner dreams Duke of Cumberland eclogue elegant Emilia endeavoured entertainment equally fashion father favour FEBRUARY 15 feelings Figure-making flattered folly fortune frequently friends friendship genius gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour imagination indulge JANUARY 25 King of Prussia ladies language late learned live lively colours look manners marriage melancholy Melfort ment merit mind MIRROR nature neighbour never nonsense verses object obliged observed paper passions Pastoral Poetry perhaps persons pleasure possessed racter received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sentiments shew sign-post situation society soon sort spirit taste thing thought tion told torrent streams town trifling TUESDAY Umphraville uneasiness virtue wife writing XXXV young
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Pagina 170 - 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...
Pagina 170 - 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 93 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth, in a part of the army which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in love with an agreeable young woman, of a good family in those parts, and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received, which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate. We were in a calm evening...
Pagina 136 - I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Pagina 251 - 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 126 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Pagina 87 - Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise. I shriek, start up, the same sad prospect find, And wake to all the griefs I left behind. For thee the fates, severely kind...
Pagina 167 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Pagina 251 - Feeling, was, it would seem, the first of our critics to feel the 'indescribable charm' of • Hamlet, and to divine something of Shakespeare's / intention. ' We see a man,' he writes, ' who in other circumstances would have exercised all the moral and social virtues, placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress and to perplex his conduct.
Pagina 307 - ... surprised to find how little there is in it either of natural feeling or real satisfaction. Many a fashionable voluptuary, who has not totally blunted his taste or his judgment, 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.