The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... never- ending happiness , or misery , as the consequence of their choice . Are not men actuated by their passions ? and are not hope and fear the most powerful of our passions ? and are there any objects which can rouse and awaken our ...
... never- ending happiness , or misery , as the consequence of their choice . Are not men actuated by their passions ? and are not hope and fear the most powerful of our passions ? and are there any objects which can rouse and awaken our ...
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... But so matters have been contrived , that he could never get to know her mind thoroughly . When he was first ac- quainted with her , he might be as intimate with her as other people ; but since he first declared his 12 57 . THE GUARDIAN .
... But so matters have been contrived , that he could never get to know her mind thoroughly . When he was first ac- quainted with her , he might be as intimate with her as other people ; but since he first declared his 12 57 . THE GUARDIAN .
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... never been admitted to wait upon her , or to see her , other than in public . If he went to her father's house , and desired to visit her , she was either to be sick or out of the way , and nobody would come near him in two hours , and ...
... never been admitted to wait upon her , or to see her , other than in public . If he went to her father's house , and desired to visit her , she was either to be sick or out of the way , and nobody would come near him in two hours , and ...
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... never get quit of Thus , sage Sir , have laid before you ail that does at present occur to me on the important sub- ject of marriage ; but before I sea up my epistle , I must desire you further to consider , how far treaties of this ...
... never get quit of Thus , sage Sir , have laid before you ail that does at present occur to me on the important sub- ject of marriage ; but before I sea up my epistle , I must desire you further to consider , how far treaties of this ...
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... never so well as in the time of a westerly wind . When it blows from that auspicious point , I raise to myself contri- butions from the British isle , by affrighting my su- perstitious countrymen with printed relations of murders ...
... never so well as in the time of a westerly wind . When it blows from that auspicious point , I raise to myself contri- butions from the British isle , by affrighting my su- perstitious countrymen with printed relations of murders ...
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Página 169 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 169 - He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Página 262 - LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Página 157 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Página 160 - I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Página 171 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th...
Página 158 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 262 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour : so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
Página 127 - They have already laid down many mechanical rules for compositions of this sort, but at the same time they cut off almost all undertakers from the possibility of ever performing them ; for the first qualification they unanimously require in a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay without learning or much reading.
Página 172 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough : he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs. A spider is no ill emblem of him. He has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.