The British Essayists;: RamblerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... evil can arise from his dwelling so frequently on the melancholy side of human life ; yet I am none of those " men of reflec- tion " who think he has given " a true repre- sentation of human life . " In writing the papers alluded to ...
... evil can arise from his dwelling so frequently on the melancholy side of human life ; yet I am none of those " men of reflec- tion " who think he has given " a true repre- sentation of human life . " In writing the papers alluded to ...
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... set of objects who were torments to him by their evil and unthankful tempers ; who sometimes drove him from his home to seek * RA MBLER , No. 72 . relief in company ; and always made it in a BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . Ivii.
... set of objects who were torments to him by their evil and unthankful tempers ; who sometimes drove him from his home to seek * RA MBLER , No. 72 . relief in company ; and always made it in a BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . Ivii.
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... evil . For who can wonder that , allured on one side , and frightened on the other , some should endeavour to gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not feel , to excite compassion by confessing ...
... evil . For who can wonder that , allured on one side , and frightened on the other , some should endeavour to gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not feel , to excite compassion by confessing ...
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... evil . There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect , compared with which reproach , hatred , and opposition , are names of happiness ; yet this worst , this meanest fate , every one who dares to write has reason to fear . I ...
... evil . There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect , compared with which reproach , hatred , and opposition , are names of happiness ; yet this worst , this meanest fate , every one who dares to write has reason to fear . I ...
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... evil as springing from the same root , they will spare the one for the sake of the other , and in judging , if not of others at least of themselves , will be apt to estimate their virtues by their vices . To this fatal error all those ...
... evil as springing from the same root , they will spare the one for the sake of the other , and in judging , if not of others at least of themselves , will be apt to estimate their virtues by their vices . To this fatal error all those ...
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acquaintance amusements Anthea appearance beauty calamity censure character Cleobulus common consider contempt conversation danger delight desire dignity discover easily ELPHINSTON eminent endeavour envy Epictetus equally error evils excellence eyes favour fear folly force fortune frequently friends gain genius give happen happiness heart hinder honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited indulge innu JOHNSON Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind knowledge labour Lacedemon lady learning less lest lives mankind marriage means Melanthia ment mind miscarriages misery moral nature nerally never objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passions pastoral Penthesilea perhaps Periander pleasing pleasure Plutus portunity praise precepts Prudentius publick racter RAMBLER reason reflection regard reproach reputation rest rience riety SATIETY SATURDAY seldom sentiments shew sometimes soon sophism suffer thing thou thought tion told TUESDAY vanity Virgil virtue vojenes write
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33 페이지 - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
xii 페이지 - Almighty God, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace .all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen...
229 페이지 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
88 페이지 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
18 페이지 - ... retire to his closet, let loose his invention, and heat his mind with incredibilities ; a book was thus produced without fear of criticism, without the toil of study, without knowledge of nature, or acquaintance with life.
245 페이지 - ... but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence, and be filled with gratitude to the beneficent Author of it ? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent, is virtue and obedience ; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure, is pitiable ignorance or absurd perverseness.
17 페이지 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
xviii 페이지 - A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence ; but, when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.
13 페이지 - Cerberus quieted with a sop ; and am, therefore, inclined to believe that modern critics, who, if they have not the eyes, have the watchfulness of Argus, and can bark as loud as Cerberus, though, perhaps, they cannot bite with equal force, might be subdued by methods of the same kind. I have heard how some have been pacified with claret and a supper, and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery.
48 페이지 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...