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Сторінка viii
... Writing - Anecdote of an atheistical Au- thor , 407 170 On Jealousy , • 169. On Good - nature , as the Effect of Constitution , 171. Subject continued - Address to those who have jealous 411 415 • Husbands , 420 178. Account of a ...
... Writing - Anecdote of an atheistical Au- thor , 407 170 On Jealousy , • 169. On Good - nature , as the Effect of Constitution , 171. Subject continued - Address to those who have jealous 411 415 • Husbands , 420 178. Account of a ...
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... written in the same manner . He has somewhere said of " fine writing , " that it " consists of sentiments which are natural , without being obvious : " and his definition has been applauded by Hume , as at once concise and just . Of the ...
... written in the same manner . He has somewhere said of " fine writing , " that it " consists of sentiments which are natural , without being obvious : " and his definition has been applauded by Hume , as at once concise and just . Of the ...
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... writing was formed upon the model of Addison : Nor do I know any thing in the history of his life which does more honor to his shrewdness and sa- gacity . The copyist , indeed , did not possess the gifted hand of his master , - “ Museo ...
... writing was formed upon the model of Addison : Nor do I know any thing in the history of his life which does more honor to his shrewdness and sa- gacity . The copyist , indeed , did not possess the gifted hand of his master , - “ Museo ...
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... written after the whole was printed off , and not before a syllable of it was composed . Such was the effect of the original plan , and the care of its author , 19 " Primo ne medium , medio ne discrepet imum ! As for his coadjutor , Sir ...
... written after the whole was printed off , and not before a syllable of it was composed . Such was the effect of the original plan , and the care of its author , 19 " Primo ne medium , medio ne discrepet imum ! As for his coadjutor , Sir ...
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... written in golden letters . At the upper end of the Methoughts . Rather Methought , for Methinks ( though the composi- tion seems strange ) is a verb , of which methought is the preterperfect . - H . hall was the Magna Charta , with the ...
... written in golden letters . At the upper end of the Methoughts . Rather Methought , for Methinks ( though the composi- tion seems strange ) is a verb , of which methought is the preterperfect . - H . hall was the Magna Charta , with the ...
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Сторінка 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Сторінка 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Сторінка 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Сторінка 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Сторінка 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.