The British Essayists: The AdventurerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... known to a lady , who had great property and interest in the East - India Company ; and through her means was chosen a director of that body . As an author , his ADVENTURER is his capital work ; the merits of which , if we mistake not ...
... known to a lady , who had great property and interest in the East - India Company ; and through her means was chosen a director of that body . As an author , his ADVENTURER is his capital work ; the merits of which , if we mistake not ...
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... he would , we may venture to pronounce , have left the world without having known one * . " Dr. HAWKESWORTH'S share of the ADVEN- Annual Register , 1775 . TURER amounts exactly to a half , or seventy papers xxvi HISTORICAL AND.
... he would , we may venture to pronounce , have left the world without having known one * . " Dr. HAWKESWORTH'S share of the ADVEN- Annual Register , 1775 . TURER amounts exactly to a half , or seventy papers xxvi HISTORICAL AND.
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... known how much Dr. BATHURST ac- tually contributed . " We have , however , the ex- press authority of Sir JOHN HAWKINS , that Dr. BATHURST Wrote the papers signed A. and with- out depending implicitly upon this authority , we may safely ...
... known how much Dr. BATHURST ac- tually contributed . " We have , however , the ex- press authority of Sir JOHN HAWKINS , that Dr. BATHURST Wrote the papers signed A. and with- out depending implicitly upon this authority , we may safely ...
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... known , but he resigned it in 1793 , foon after a kind of rebellion among the scholars , of the blame of which he appears to have had no share . Although long celebrated as a fcholar , and living much among the patrons of the church ...
... known , but he resigned it in 1793 , foon after a kind of rebellion among the scholars , of the blame of which he appears to have had no share . Although long celebrated as a fcholar , and living much among the patrons of the church ...
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... known . Thus , the peasant and the mechanic , when they have received the wages of the day , and procured their strong beer and supper , have scarce a wish unsatisfied ; but the man of nice discernment and quick sensations , who has ...
... known . Thus , the peasant and the mechanic , when they have received the wages of the day , and procured their strong beer and supper , have scarce a wish unsatisfied ; but the man of nice discernment and quick sensations , who has ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admitted ADVENTURER Æsop Alibeg Amurath appear astonishment bagnio BATHURST beauty became caresses Cockchafer contempt curiosity death Deianira delight desire disappointed discovered diseases distress dreadful effect endeavoured English mastiffs enjoyment entered entertainment equal evil expected expence eyes fable father fear felicity folly genius gentleman gratify greater happiness hast HAWKESWORTH honour hope husband imagination immediately indulged JANUARY 30 JOHN HAWKESWORTH JOHNSON JOSEPH WARTON kind labour lady less lover mankind marriage Melissa ment mind misery moral morning nature never night object pain pantomime paper passions perceived perpetual person Phidyle pleasure present produced punishment racter reason received regarded regret religion render restrained Saint Bartholomew's Hospital SATURDAY scarce scenes Selima Seraglio servants Sir JOHN HAWKINS soon suffered Syndarac thee thou thought tion told TUESDAY venison vice VIRG virtue wife wish wretched write XXIII young
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Página 204 - The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us — O, is all forgot? All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?
Página 62 - 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 lived today...
Página 235 - I perceived that it was in motion ; it increased in size as it drew near, and at length I discovered it to be an eagle. I still kept my eye fixed steadfastly upon it, and saw it alight at a small distance, where I now descried a fox whose two fore-legs appeared to be broken. Before this fox the eagle laid part of a kid, which she had brought in her talons, and then disappeared. " When I awaked, I laid my forehead upon the ground, and blessed the Prophet for the instruction of the morning.
Página 233 - ... force : but yet I know not whether my danger is a reality or a dream. I am as thou art, a reptile of the earth : my life is a moment, and eternity, in which days, and years, and ages, are nothing, eternity is before me, for which I also should prepare...
Página 230 - I'll join the widow's plaintive song, And save the lover in my verse. The...
Página 184 - And binding each to each for life. — FRANCIS. THOUGH I devote this lucubration to the Ladies, yet there are some parts of it which, I hope, will not be wholly useless to the Gentlemen: and, perhaps, both may expect to be addressed upon a subject, which, to both, is of equal importance...
Página 197 - He looked round with a smile of complacency ; perceiving that though it was mean it was neat, and though I was poor I appeared to be content. As his habit was that of a pilgrim, I hastened to receive him with such hospitality as was in my power ; and my cheerfulness was rather increased than restrained by his presence.
Página xviii - ... an author ; but the greater part, who arraigned his impious sentiments and indecent narratives, probably rendered his sufferings as a man more acute. Against their charges he stood defenceless ; and no defence indeed could be attempted with a reasonable expectation of success. But what, we are told, completed his chagrin, was the notice frequently given in an infamous magazine published at that time, that " All the amorous passages and descriptions in Dr. Hawk th's Collection of Voyages (should...
Página 80 - ... procured, and read with great eagerness ; and though I was not at last a sound Deist, yet I perceived with some pleasure that my stock of polemic knowledge was greatly increased ; so that, instead of being an auditor, I commenced a speaker at the club ; and though to stand up and babble to a crowd in an alehouse, till silence is commanded by the stroke of a hammer, is as low an ambition as can taint the human mind, yet I was much elevated by my new distinction, and pleased with the deference...
Página 97 - ... and we condemn, as fit objects are successively held up to the mind: the affections are, as It were, drawn out into the field : they learn their exercise in a mock fight, and are trained for the service of virtue.