The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... town and business to a little seat , where a pleasant cham- paign country , good roads , and healthful air , tempt me often abroad ; and being a single man , have con- tracted more acquaintance than is suitable to my years , or ...
... town and business to a little seat , where a pleasant cham- paign country , good roads , and healthful air , tempt me often abroad ; and being a single man , have con- tracted more acquaintance than is suitable to my years , or ...
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... town ; and have some thoughts of trying to get knighted , because our neighbours take a pride in saying , they have been with Sir such a one . I have a pack of pure slow hounds against thou comest into the country , and Nanny my fat doe ...
... town ; and have some thoughts of trying to get knighted , because our neighbours take a pride in saying , they have been with Sir such a one . I have a pack of pure slow hounds against thou comest into the country , and Nanny my fat doe ...
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... town with a thousand pounds worth of jewels . I have or dered my chariot to be new painted for your use , and the world's ; and have prevailed upon my husband to present you with a pair of Flanders mares , by driving them every evening ...
... town with a thousand pounds worth of jewels . I have or dered my chariot to be new painted for your use , and the world's ; and have prevailed upon my husband to present you with a pair of Flanders mares , by driving them every evening ...
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... town in its favour ; whereas you very prudently waited until the tragedy of Cato had gained an universal and irresistible applause , and then with great boldness venture to pronounce your opinion of it to be the same with that of all ...
... town in its favour ; whereas you very prudently waited until the tragedy of Cato had gained an universal and irresistible applause , and then with great boldness venture to pronounce your opinion of it to be the same with that of all ...
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... town's admiration . Be- sides these , there were also by this time arrived two or three sets of whisperers , who carry on most of their calumnies by what they entertain one another with in that place , and we were now altogether very ...
... town's admiration . Be- sides these , there were also by this time arrived two or three sets of whisperers , who carry on most of their calumnies by what they entertain one another with in that place , and we were now altogether very ...
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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.