The British Essayists, 9권Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... affectionate husband , or the generous friend . It may be remarked , for the comt fort of honest poverty , that this desire reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recom- mend them . This is a weed that will grow in a ...
... affectionate husband , or the generous friend . It may be remarked , for the comt fort of honest poverty , that this desire reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recom- mend them . This is a weed that will grow in a ...
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... affection of the mind . As there are frequent in- stances to be met with of a proud humility , so this passion , contrary to most others , affects applause , by avoiding all show and appearance ; for this rea- son it will not sometimes ...
... affection of the mind . As there are frequent in- stances to be met with of a proud humility , so this passion , contrary to most others , affects applause , by avoiding all show and appearance ; for this rea- son it will not sometimes ...
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... affections , your ever loting friend , DAVYTH AP SHENKYN . ' P. S. My law - suits have brought me to London , but I have lost my causes ; and so have made my resolutions to go down and leap before the frosts be- gin ; for I am apt to ...
... affections , your ever loting friend , DAVYTH AP SHENKYN . ' P. S. My law - suits have brought me to London , but I have lost my causes ; and so have made my resolutions to go down and leap before the frosts be- gin ; for I am apt to ...
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... affection . He has nothing that's aspiring ; and , though he might rise to the highest order of nobility , he keeps himself in an inferior rank : yet I think myself bound to use my endeavours to serve and promote him ; and would ...
... affection . He has nothing that's aspiring ; and , though he might rise to the highest order of nobility , he keeps himself in an inferior rank : yet I think myself bound to use my endeavours to serve and promote him ; and would ...
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... affection and kindness , for no other end but to torment her with more ease and authority ? Is any thing more unlike a gentleman , than when his honour is engaged for the performing his promises , because nothing but that can oblige him ...
... affection and kindness , for no other end but to torment her with more ease and authority ? Is any thing more unlike a gentleman , than when his honour is engaged for the performing his promises , because nothing but that can oblige him ...
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221 페이지 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
87 페이지 - This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach: we fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
65 페이지 - CONSIDER a human soul, without education, like marble in the quarry : which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.
ii 페이지 - ... till such time as he should sweat ; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic.
98 페이지 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
211 페이지 - ... sudden glances and vibrations ; or whether, in the last place, there may not be certain undiscovered channels running from the head and the heart to this little instrument of loquacity, and conveying into it a perpetual affluence of animal spirits.
221 페이지 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
221 페이지 - Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides: Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
240 페이지 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
239 페이지 - These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes : Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze...