The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volúmenes5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... person . Every one that sees her knows her to be of quality ; but her distinction is owing to her manner and not to her habit . Her beauty is full of attraction , but not of allurement . There is such a composure in her looks , and ...
... person . Every one that sees her knows her to be of quality ; but her distinction is owing to her manner and not to her habit . Her beauty is full of attraction , but not of allurement . There is such a composure in her looks , and ...
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... person refuse to return a bow of a man whom he thought in disgrace , that was next day made secretary of state ; and ... persons , as are ready to do their country service upon all occasions , I have an engine in my study , which is a ...
... person refuse to return a bow of a man whom he thought in disgrace , that was next day made secretary of state ; and ... persons , as are ready to do their country service upon all occasions , I have an engine in my study , which is a ...
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... person who offends them . Our neighbour was only saying to his wife , she went a little too fine , ' when she immediately pulled his periwig off , and stamping it under her feet wrung her hands , and said , ' Never modest woman was so ...
... person who offends them . Our neighbour was only saying to his wife , she went a little too fine , ' when she immediately pulled his periwig off , and stamping it under her feet wrung her hands , and said , ' Never modest woman was so ...
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... person than Adam himself . According to Mil- ton's description of the first couple , as soon as they had fallen , and the turbulent passions of anger , ha- tred , and jealousy , first entered their breasts ; Adam grew moody , and talked ...
... person than Adam himself . According to Mil- ton's description of the first couple , as soon as they had fallen , and the turbulent passions of anger , ha- tred , and jealousy , first entered their breasts ; Adam grew moody , and talked ...
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... person who shall pretend to a superior laugh at a man , who does not make him amends by oppor- tunities of advantage ... persons who are most together appear least of a mind when joined by other company . This evil proceeds from an ...
... person who shall pretend to a superior laugh at a man , who does not make him amends by oppor- tunities of advantage ... persons who are most together appear least of a mind when joined by other company . This evil proceeds from an ...
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Página 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 31 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Página 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Página 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Página 110 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Página 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Página 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.