The British Essayists: MirrorJames Ferguson J. Haddon, 1819 |
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... matter , they learn nothing but vice and folly . Although travelling has proved equally fatal to me , my case is very different from any of those I have mentioned : I shall , therefore , take the liberty to give an account of myself ...
... matter , they learn nothing but vice and folly . Although travelling has proved equally fatal to me , my case is very different from any of those I have mentioned : I shall , therefore , take the liberty to give an account of myself ...
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... matter which presented itself to my view , as well as from an unhappy infirmity under which I have la- boured from my youth , a sort of lethargic disorder which totally unfits me for reading or writing more than half an hour at a time ...
... matter which presented itself to my view , as well as from an unhappy infirmity under which I have la- boured from my youth , a sort of lethargic disorder which totally unfits me for reading or writing more than half an hour at a time ...
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... matter to obtain a pro- ficiency in the practice of the science ; and of this the advantage is very great . I have the honour to know several very accomplished gentlemen , who , with no other companion than their violin , are able to ...
... matter to obtain a pro- ficiency in the practice of the science ; and of this the advantage is very great . I have the honour to know several very accomplished gentlemen , who , with no other companion than their violin , are able to ...
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... matter for much serious reflection . It is wonderful that any one should tell things im- possible , with the hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have related , must have entertained that hope . Neither ...
... matter for much serious reflection . It is wonderful that any one should tell things im- possible , with the hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have related , must have entertained that hope . Neither ...
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... matter to be admitted to a party of this kind : I was introduced , at a public place , to a gentleman , who , I was told , was a man of fashion and of the world , and was by him invited to a petit souper , where I understood I should ...
... matter to be admitted to a party of this kind : I was introduced , at a public place , to a gentleman , who , I was told , was a man of fashion and of the world , and was by him invited to a petit souper , where I understood I should ...
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Página 180 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 180 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 266 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 322 - Tears were the only answer she could give. Sir Edward's servants appeared with a carriage ready for his departure. He took from his pocket two pictures ; one he had drawn of Louisa, he fastened round his neck, and kissing it with rapture, hid it in his bosom. The other he held out in a hesitating manner.
Página 134 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 79 - ... as a philosopher than as one who intended to be a practitioner in the art ; he was, nevertheless, preparing to take his degree, when the death of his father left him, at the age of twenty, possessed of a handsome fortune. " Antonio continued his studies for some time with his usual assiduity ; but, finding his income more than sufficient for his wants, he gave up all thoughts of engaging in practice. His house became the rendezvous of his former school-companions, many of them the sons of the...
Página 261 - Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress, and to perplex his conduct.
Página 177 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Página 101 - We were, in a calm evening, diverting ourselves, on the top of a -cliff, with the prospect of the sea; and trifling away the time in such little fondnesses as are most ridiculous to people in business, and most agreeable to those in love. In the midst of these our innocent endearments, she snatched a paper of verses out of my hand, and ran away with them. I was following her; when on a sudden the ground, though at a considerable distance from the verge of the precipice, sunk under her, and threw...
Página 259 - ... criticism cannot justify, though the situation of the poet, and the time in which he wrote, may easily excuse. But we are to look for the superiority of Shakspeare in the astonishing and almost supernatural powers of his invention, his absolute command over the passions, and his wonderful knowledge of Nature. Of the structure of his stories, or the probability of his incidents, he is frequently careless ; these he took at random from the legendary tale or the extravagant romance ; but his intimate...