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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... least a cheerful heart , That tastes those gifts with joy . XI . " Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death in distant worlds The glorious theme renew . XII . " When nature fails , and day and night ...
... least a cheerful heart , That tastes those gifts with joy . XI . " Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death in distant worlds The glorious theme renew . XII . " When nature fails , and day and night ...
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... least of my satisfaction in my survey , to go up stairs , and pass the shops of agreeable females ; to observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches ...
... least of my satisfaction in my survey , to go up stairs , and pass the shops of agreeable females ; to observe so many pretty hands busy in the folding of ribbons , and the utmost eagerness of agreeable faces in the sale of patches ...
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... least are but annuals . Some professed florists make them their constant study and employ- ment , and despise all fruit ; and now and then a few fanciful people spend all their time in the culti- vation of a single tulip , or a ...
... least are but annuals . Some professed florists make them their constant study and employ- ment , and despise all fruit ; and now and then a few fanciful people spend all their time in the culti- vation of a single tulip , or a ...
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... least provoca- tion ; and indeed we live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against parents , or at least to extenuate it , my dear rails at my father and mo- ther ...
... least provoca- tion ; and indeed we live better together than usually folks do who hated one another when they were first joined . To evade the sin against parents , or at least to extenuate it , my dear rails at my father and mo- ther ...
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... least injury , are cautious of exacting the utmost justice . Let any one who is conversant in the variety of human life reflect upon it , and he will find the man who wants mercy has a taste of no enjoyment of any kind . There is a ...
... least injury , are cautious of exacting the utmost justice . Let any one who is conversant in the variety of human life reflect upon it , and he will find the man who wants mercy has a taste of no enjoyment of any kind . There is a ...
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agreeable appear beauty consider conversation countenance daugh delight desire Dictamnus discourse divine dreams dress duke of Burgundy Eastcourt entertainment epigram excellent eyes faith fortune garden gentleman give gout greatest hand happy head hear heart honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagination kind lady learning letter live look Manilius mankind manner Mariamne marriage married matter ment merit mind mirth modesty Mohair nature never obliged observed occasion pain paper particular passion person Pharamond Pindar pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus present proveditor racter reader reason Rechteren reflexion religion Rhynsault riches Samson Agonistes satisfaction seems sense SEPT sight sir Robert Viner sorrow soul SPECTATOR tell temper thing thou thought tion told town Tunbridge VIRG Virgil virtue whilst whole wife woman women words write young
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Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.