The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 - English essays |
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... space of almost two years . As a monosyllable is my delight , I have made very few excursions , in the conversations which I have related , beyond a Yes or a No. By this means my readers have lost many good things which I have had in my ...
... space of almost two years . As a monosyllable is my delight , I have made very few excursions , in the conversations which I have related , beyond a Yes or a No. By this means my readers have lost many good things which I have had in my ...
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... spaces , and neglected parts of time , which have slipped away from them unemployed ; and there is hardly any one considering person in the world but is apt to fancy with himself , at some time or other , that if his life were to begin ...
... spaces , and neglected parts of time , which have slipped away from them unemployed ; and there is hardly any one considering person in the world but is apt to fancy with himself , at some time or other , that if his life were to begin ...
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... space of two years last past . 6 I hope the apology I have made , as to the licence allowable to a feigned character , may excuse any thing which has been said , in these discourses , of the Spectator and his works ; but the imputation ...
... space of two years last past . 6 I hope the apology I have made , as to the licence allowable to a feigned character , may excuse any thing which has been said , in these discourses , of the Spectator and his works ; but the imputation ...
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... spaces of writing which want to be filled up , and which , for that reason , are called blank spaces , as of right appertaining to our family ; for I consider myself as the lord of a manor , who lays his claim to all wastes or spots of ...
... spaces of writing which want to be filled up , and which , for that reason , are called blank spaces , as of right appertaining to our family ; for I consider myself as the lord of a manor , who lays his claim to all wastes or spots of ...
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... space they possess is so exceedingly little in comparison of the whole , that it would scarce make a blank in the creation . The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature , and pass from one ...
... space they possess is so exceedingly little in comparison of the whole , that it would scarce make a blank in the creation . The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature , and pass from one ...
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Page 340 - It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 340 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 134 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 156 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 188 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Page 81 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 198 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Page 102 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Page 33 - I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished The Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in memory of our friendship.
Page 122 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...