The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 - English essays |
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... king ; ' as perhaps the most eminent egotist that ever appeared in the world was Montaigne , the author of the celebrated Essays . This lively old Gascon has woven all his bodily in- firmities into his works ; and , after having spoken ...
... king ; ' as perhaps the most eminent egotist that ever appeared in the world was Montaigne , the author of the celebrated Essays . This lively old Gascon has woven all his bodily in- firmities into his works ; and , after having spoken ...
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... kings who never chose a friend Till with full cups they had unmasked his soul , And seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts . ROSCOMMON . No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in . One would wonder how ...
... kings who never chose a friend Till with full cups they had unmasked his soul , And seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts . ROSCOMMON . No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in . One would wonder how ...
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... king of Lydia , he thanked him for his kindness , but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with . In short , con- tent is equivalent to wealth , and luxury to poverty ; or , to give the thought a more agreeable ...
... king of Lydia , he thanked him for his kindness , but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with . In short , con- tent is equivalent to wealth , and luxury to poverty ; or , to give the thought a more agreeable ...
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... king's health when he was not a - dry . He would thrust his head out of his chamber window every morning , and , after having gaped for fresh air about half an hour , repeat fifty verses as loud as he could bawl them , for the benefit ...
... king's health when he was not a - dry . He would thrust his head out of his chamber window every morning , and , after having gaped for fresh air about half an hour , repeat fifty verses as loud as he could bawl them , for the benefit ...
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... king- dom . The young dervis , after having thanked him with a very singular modesty , desired to be excused , as having made a vow never to accept of any employ- ments and preferring a free and independent state of life to all other ...
... king- dom . The young dervis , after having thanked him with a very singular modesty , desired to be excused , as having made a vow never to accept of any employ- ments and preferring a free and independent state of life to all other ...
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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...