The British Essayists, Volume 35Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1807 |
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... possessed of a family estate of a thousand pounds a - year , and ( I hope I may say it without Ι vanity ) with as great a share of knowledge as any of my contemporaries could boast of . The tour of Europe was the only thing wanting to ...
... possessed of a family estate of a thousand pounds a - year , and ( I hope I may say it without Ι vanity ) with as great a share of knowledge as any of my contemporaries could boast of . The tour of Europe was the only thing wanting to ...
Pagina 24
... possessed , when from the cares of state , they could descend to , and feel amusement in , those innocent and simple - hearted pleasures . None but men of vir- tue , and who possessed an easy and an irreproachable mind , could have ...
... possessed , when from the cares of state , they could descend to , and feel amusement in , those innocent and simple - hearted pleasures . None but men of vir- tue , and who possessed an easy and an irreproachable mind , could have ...
Pagina 25
... possessing . At his house in the country , these appear to the greatest advan- tage ; there they have room to shoot out at will ; and , like the old yew - trees in his garden , though they do VOL . XXXV . look a little odd , and now and ...
... possessing . At his house in the country , these appear to the greatest advan- tage ; there they have room to shoot out at will ; and , like the old yew - trees in his garden , though they do VOL . XXXV . look a little odd , and now and ...
Pagina 44
... possessed an infinite fund of humour , and for whose appearance I had been made to look , for some time , with impa- tience . The superiority of his talents for conversation seemed , indeed , to be acknowledged ; for he was allowed to ...
... possessed an infinite fund of humour , and for whose appearance I had been made to look , for some time , with impa- tience . The superiority of his talents for conversation seemed , indeed , to be acknowledged ; for he was allowed to ...
Pagina 45
... possessed , in truth , only a chime of buffoonery , which , when he had rung out , he was forced to substitute the bottle in its place , the last joke he uttered being a reproof to our landlord for not pushing it about . Now , Mr ...
... possessed , in truth , only a chime of buffoonery , which , when he had rung out , he was forced to substitute the bottle in its place , the last joke he uttered being a reproof to our landlord for not pushing it about . Now , Mr ...
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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.