The British Essayists: MirrorJames Ferguson J. Haddon, 1819 |
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... present content myself with barely hinting at one other expedient , though I am aware that its vulgari- ty will not permit it to be often employed by people of taste and fashion . It must be acknowledged that the most effectual of all ...
... present content myself with barely hinting at one other expedient , though I am aware that its vulgari- ty will not permit it to be often employed by people of taste and fashion . It must be acknowledged that the most effectual of all ...
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... present to us afresh the blissful illusions of life , when Gaiety was on the wing undamped by Care , and Hope smiled before us unchecked by Disappointment . The distance of the scene adds to our idea of its felicity , and increases the ...
... present to us afresh the blissful illusions of life , when Gaiety was on the wing undamped by Care , and Hope smiled before us unchecked by Disappointment . The distance of the scene adds to our idea of its felicity , and increases the ...
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... present , the na- tives vied with each other in displaying their own importance . The conversation chanced to turn on the campaign of Marshal de Villars against the people of the Cévennes ; and some of the guests were old enough to ...
... present , the na- tives vied with each other in displaying their own importance . The conversation chanced to turn on the campaign of Marshal de Villars against the people of the Cévennes ; and some of the guests were old enough to ...
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... present circum- stances , she had another objection to every change of situation . She felt too much anxiety about her father , to think of any thing which could call off her attention from him , and make it proper to place any of it ...
... present circum- stances , she had another objection to every change of situation . She felt too much anxiety about her father , to think of any thing which could call off her attention from him , and make it proper to place any of it ...
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... present on the subject of cookery ; whence it na- turally fell into a discussion of the comparative excellence of different wines ; on which topics the conversation rested with so much emphasis , that a stranger who had overheard it ...
... present on the subject of cookery ; whence it na- turally fell into a discussion of the comparative excellence of different wines ; on which topics the conversation rested with so much emphasis , that a stranger who had overheard it ...
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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...