The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... youth within such and such districts . I know , in particular , goods are not entered as they ought to be at the custom - house , nor law - reports perused at the Temple , by reason of one beauty who detains the young merchants too long ...
... youth within such and such districts . I know , in particular , goods are not entered as they ought to be at the custom - house , nor law - reports perused at the Temple , by reason of one beauty who detains the young merchants too long ...
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... youth ; that she drilled him on to five - and - fifty , and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age , if she can find her account in another . I shall conclude this narrative with a letter from honest Sam Hopewell , a ...
... youth ; that she drilled him on to five - and - fifty , and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age , if she can find her account in another . I shall conclude this narrative with a letter from honest Sam Hopewell , a ...
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... youth who goes on in a continued course of voluptuousness , advances by degrees into a libidinous old man ; and that the passion survives in the mind when it is altogether dead in the body ; nay , that the desire grows more violent ...
... youth who goes on in a continued course of voluptuousness , advances by degrees into a libidinous old man ; and that the passion survives in the mind when it is altogether dead in the body ; nay , that the desire grows more violent ...
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... what they know they cannot hold ; that they are those who will not allow youth their follies , not because they are themselves past them , but because they love to N ° 91 . continue in them . These beauties F 3 N ° 91 . 53 SPECTATOR .
... what they know they cannot hold ; that they are those who will not allow youth their follies , not because they are themselves past them , but because they love to N ° 91 . continue in them . These beauties F 3 N ° 91 . 53 SPECTATOR .
55 페이지
... youth . Tulip sung , danced , moved before the glass , led his mis- tress half a minuet , hummed Celia the fair , in the bloom of fifteen ! when there came a servant with a letter to him , which was as follows : These verses on Sir ...
... youth . Tulip sung , danced , moved before the glass , led his mis- tress half a minuet , hummed Celia the fair , in the bloom of fifteen ! when there came a servant with a letter to him , which was as follows : These verses on Sir ...
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acquaintance admirers agreeable appear beauty behaviour body cerned character Constantia conversation creature daugh death discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig Eudoxus eyes fair sex father favour fortune friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra happy hear heard heart Herod honest honour human humble servant humour husband imagination impertinent kind lady Laertes learned letter live look lover mankind manner Mariamne marriage master mind nature never night obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID paper particular pass passion person Pharamond Pindar Plato Platonic love pleased pleasure present proper reader reason ribaldry Richard Steele sense shew sion sorrow soul speak spect SPECTATOR tell temn temper thee Theodosius thing thou thought tion told Tom Short town VIRG virtue whig whole woman women words young youth
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360 페이지 - ... human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
357 페이지 - What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
356 페이지 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
120 페이지 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
120 페이지 - I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a law-suit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
161 페이지 - So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
357 페이지 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, ' Cast thy eyes eastward,' said he, 'and tell me what thou seest.' 'I See,' said I, ' a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
192 페이지 - ... could not forbear discovering greater expressions of mirth than ordinary upon the appearance of this monstrous face, under which, notwithstanding it was made to frown and stare in a most extraordinary manner, I could still discover a distant resemblance of my old friend. Sir Roger, upon seeing me laugh/ desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise. I at first kept my usual silence; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not...
358 페이지 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud hut many of...
143 페이지 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book : and at the same time employed an itinerant...