The British Essayists;: GuardianJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... seen ; he has gran- deur and good - humour in his countenance , which command both our love and respect ; his shaggy main and whiskers are peculiar graces . In short , I do not question but he will prove a worthy sup- porter of the ...
... seen ; he has gran- deur and good - humour in his countenance , which command both our love and respect ; his shaggy main and whiskers are peculiar graces . In short , I do not question but he will prove a worthy sup- porter of the ...
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... seen The gold still vary'd by the waving green . For Mulciber with secret pride beheld How far his skill all human wit excell'd ; And grown uxorious , did the work design To speak the artist , and the art divine . Proud columns tow'ring ...
... seen The gold still vary'd by the waving green . For Mulciber with secret pride beheld How far his skill all human wit excell'd ; And grown uxorious , did the work design To speak the artist , and the art divine . Proud columns tow'ring ...
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... seen at a coffee- house , near the place of my abode , who having a pretty good estate , and a disinclination to books or business , to secure himself from some of the above - mentioned misfortunes , employs himself with much alacrity ...
... seen at a coffee- house , near the place of my abode , who having a pretty good estate , and a disinclination to books or business , to secure himself from some of the above - mentioned misfortunes , employs himself with much alacrity ...
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... seen a fanciful dream written by a Spaniard , in which he introduces the person of death metamorphosing himself like another Pro- teus into innumerable shapes and figures . To re- present the fatality of fevers and agues , with many ...
... seen a fanciful dream written by a Spaniard , in which he introduces the person of death metamorphosing himself like another Pro- teus into innumerable shapes and figures . To re- present the fatality of fevers and agues , with many ...
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... seen a treatise written by a learned physician on the distempers peculiar to those who work in stone or marble . It has been therefore observed by curious men , that upon a strict examination there are more males brought into the world ...
... seen a treatise written by a learned physician on the distempers peculiar to those who work in stone or marble . It has been therefore observed by curious men , that upon a strict examination there are more males brought into the world ...
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Сторінка 231 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Сторінка 232 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Сторінка 232 - Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Сторінка 80 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Сторінка 233 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Сторінка 43 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Сторінка 182 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Сторінка 232 - She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Сторінка 49 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Сторінка 197 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.