The British Essayists: The RamblerJ. 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 - English essays |
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... human Screech - owl ..... 60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography 61. A Londoner's Visit to the Country 62. A young Lady's Impatience to see Lon . don 63. Inconstancy not always a Weakness . 64. The Requisites to true Friendship VOL ...
... human Screech - owl ..... 60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography 61. A Londoner's Visit to the Country 62. A young Lady's Impatience to see Lon . don 63. Inconstancy not always a Weakness . 64. The Requisites to true Friendship VOL ...
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... human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with learned lectures on the vanity of life . But ...
... human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with learned lectures on the vanity of life . But ...
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... human affairs , and open his prospects into futurity . It is now past , we have closed his eyes , and heard him breathe the groan of expiration . At the sight of this last conflict , I felt a sensation never known to me before ; a ...
... human affairs , and open his prospects into futurity . It is now past , we have closed his eyes , and heard him breathe the groan of expiration . At the sight of this last conflict , I felt a sensation never known to me before ; a ...
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... human potentates , to the lowest labourer or artificer ; and the miseries which the neglect of it produces are so numerous and so grievous , that it ought to be recommended with every variation of address , and adapted to every class of ...
... human potentates , to the lowest labourer or artificer ; and the miseries which the neglect of it produces are so numerous and so grievous , that it ought to be recommended with every variation of address , and adapted to every class of ...
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... human form , which may be properly marked out as the screech - owls of mankind . These screech - owls seem to be settled in an opinion , that the great business of life is to complain , and that they were born for no other purpose than ...
... human form , which may be properly marked out as the screech - owls of mankind . These screech - owls seem to be settled in an opinion , that the great business of life is to complain , and that they were born for no other purpose than ...
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Page 210 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 214 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Page 170 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake. And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 211 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights ; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipp'd in heaven ; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, And shook...
Page 203 - 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 labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 60 - He was fresh and vigorous with rest; he was animated with hope; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the valleys and saw the hills gradually rising before him.
Page 62 - Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new...
Page 260 - ... few could, by her entreaties or remonstrances, be induced to put the rudder into her hand, without stipulating that she should approach so near unto the rocks of Pleasure, that they might solace themselves with a short enjoyment of that delicious region, after which they always determined to pursue their course without any other deviation. Reason was...
Page 34 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Page 169 - Ordain'd by thee, and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...