The British Essayists: The IdlerJ. 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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... once advanced , although he might without shame or loss of fame have confessed that he had himself discovered reason to change his opinion , or had been convinced by his oppo- nent . In one instance only in this work , he recalled what ...
... once advanced , although he might without shame or loss of fame have confessed that he had himself discovered reason to change his opinion , or had been convinced by his oppo- nent . In one instance only in this work , he recalled what ...
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... once written , can be exemplified in other words , to the definitions of which we may suppose many objections would be made , and sometimes not without justice . A lady once asked him how he came to define pastern , the " knee of a ...
... once written , can be exemplified in other words , to the definitions of which we may suppose many objections would be made , and sometimes not without justice . A lady once asked him how he came to define pastern , the " knee of a ...
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... once made to revive the Tatler ; and the strange appellations , by which other papers have been called , show that the authers were distressed , like the na- tives of America , who come to the Europeans to beg a name . It will be easily ...
... once made to revive the Tatler ; and the strange appellations , by which other papers have been called , show that the authers were distressed , like the na- tives of America , who come to the Europeans to beg a name . It will be easily ...
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... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes , and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions , and barren zeal . The most active promoters of the present schemes of charity , cannot be cleared from some instances of ...
... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes , and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions , and barren zeal . The most active promoters of the present schemes of charity , cannot be cleared from some instances of ...
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... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes , and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions , and barren zeal . The most active promoters of the present schemes of charity , cannot be cleared from some instances of ...
... once , may breathe out his life in idle wishes , and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions , and barren zeal . The most active promoters of the present schemes of charity , cannot be cleared from some instances of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amusement battle of Dettingen believe Betty Broom brothers were valiant called censure character charity common considered curiosity danger delight desire diligence dinner Ditto dread Drugget endeavour enemies English epithalamium essays expected eyes fame favour friends Friseur girls gout hands happiness Hare and Tortoise honour hope hour human idleness Idler imagine inquire JOHNSON justly Knights of Malta labour lady learned less lest live look Lord KEPPEL lost Louisbourg marriage mind misery mistress morning nation nature necessary ness never Newmarket once opinion pain paper passed Peterhouse pleased pleasure praise present racter readers reason resolved ridiculous SATURDAY scarcely seldom servant Sir JOSHUA Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS sleep soldiers sometimes species suffer sure talk tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought tion told truth Universal Chronicle virtue Whirler wife wish writer XXXIII
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Página 128 - Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to
Página 37 - and is very seldom attained. The experiments that have been tried, are tried again; he that burned an animal with irons yesterday, will be willing to amuse himself with burning another to-morrow. I know not, that by living dissections any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured. And if the
Página 6 - N°. 7. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1758. ONE of the principal amusements of the Idler is to read the works of those minute historians the writers of news, who, though contemptuously overlooked by the composers of bulky volumes, are yet necessary in a nation where much wealth produces much leisure, and one part of the people
Página 116 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST
Página 20 - to tell children of bugbears and goblins. Fear will find every house haunted; and idleness will wait for ever for the moment of illumination. This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance every day is bright, and
Página ix - Speaking of his own discourses, our great artist says, " Whatever merit they have, must be imputed, in a great measure, to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. JOHNSON. I do not mean to say, though it
Página 111 - There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vender of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh ;,and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom
Página 88 - once pursued the same course of science, and from whence they soared to the most elevated heights of literary fame. This is that incitement which Tally, according to his own testimony, experienced at Athens, when he contemplated the porticos where Socrates sat, and the laurel-groves where Plato disputed. But there are other circumstances, and of the highest importance,