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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... seems to me remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good , and extenuates our hatred of the bad . Those virtues which once we envied , as Ho- race observes , because they eclipsed our own , can now no longer obstruct our ...
... seems to me remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good , and extenuates our hatred of the bad . Those virtues which once we envied , as Ho- race observes , because they eclipsed our own , can now no longer obstruct our ...
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... seem unanimous enough in abhorring it as destructive to happiness ; and all to whom want is terrible , upon whatever principle , ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors , and attain the ...
... seem unanimous enough in abhorring it as destructive to happiness ; and all to whom want is terrible , upon whatever principle , ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors , and attain the ...
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... seems to have intrenched itself too strongly in the mind to be driven out , and which , perhaps , had not lost its power , even over those who declaimed against it , but would have broken out in the poet or the sage , if it had been ...
... seems to have intrenched itself too strongly in the mind to be driven out , and which , perhaps , had not lost its power , even over those who declaimed against it , but would have broken out in the poet or the sage , if it had been ...
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... seems , and that the great- ness , which we admire at a distance , has much fewer advantages , and much less ... seem to consider those who are placed in ranks of re- mote superiority , as almost another and higher species of beings . As ...
... seems , and that the great- ness , which we admire at a distance , has much fewer advantages , and much less ... seem to consider those who are placed in ranks of re- mote superiority , as almost another and higher species of beings . As ...
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... seems not much to deserve the desire or envy of a wise man . It is cer- tain , that , with regard to corporal enjoyment , money can neither open new avenues to pleasure , nor block up the passages of anguish . Disease and infirmity ...
... seems not much to deserve the desire or envy of a wise man . It is cer- tain , that , with regard to corporal enjoyment , money can neither open new avenues to pleasure , nor block up the passages of anguish . Disease and infirmity ...
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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...