The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Haddon, 1819 |
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... daughter Elizabeth ( since her visit she is offended if we call her Betty ) said it was fana- tical to find fault with card - playing on Sunday ; and VOL . XXXIV . G her sister Sophia gravely asked my son - in - N ° 12 . 61 THE MIRROR .
... daughter Elizabeth ( since her visit she is offended if we call her Betty ) said it was fana- tical to find fault with card - playing on Sunday ; and VOL . XXXIV . G her sister Sophia gravely asked my son - in - N ° 12 . 61 THE MIRROR .
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... tical genius of the one age , to counterfeit and imitate the productions of the other . To the poet of 2 simple age , the varied objects which present them- selves in cultivated society are unknown . To the poet of a refined age , the ...
... tical genius of the one age , to counterfeit and imitate the productions of the other . To the poet of 2 simple age , the varied objects which present them- selves in cultivated society are unknown . To the poet of a refined age , the ...
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... tical . Shakspeare , in his King Lear , sketches this character with his usual ability : ' This is some fellow Who , having been prais'd for bluntness , doth affect A saucy roughness , and constrains the garb Quite from his nature . He ...
... tical . Shakspeare , in his King Lear , sketches this character with his usual ability : ' This is some fellow Who , having been prais'd for bluntness , doth affect A saucy roughness , and constrains the garb Quite from his nature . He ...
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James Ferguson. have dwelt too little . Others complain , that the cri- tical papers I have published were written in a style and manner too abstruse and technical for the bulk of my readers , and desire me to remember , that in a ...
James Ferguson. have dwelt too little . Others complain , that the cri- tical papers I have published were written in a style and manner too abstruse and technical for the bulk of my readers , and desire me to remember , that in a ...
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Сторінка 122 - Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Сторінка 251 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Сторінка 276 - And, he gave it for his opinion, that, whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Сторінка 123 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Сторінка 193 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...
Сторінка 68 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams O sun, thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course?
Сторінка 218 - ... and when she perceived a stranger, whom the old woman now introduced to her, a blush at first, and then the gentle ceremonial of native politeness, which the affliction of the time tempered but did not extinguish, crossed it for a moment, and changed its expression.
Сторінка 220 - ... but you are not yet re-established enough to talk much ; you must take care of your health, and neither study nor preach for some time. I have been thinking over a scheme that struck me to-day when you mentioned your intended departure. I never was in Switzerland ; I have a great mind to accompany your daughter and you into that country. I will help to take care of you by the road ; for, as I was your first physician, I hold myself responsible for your cure.
Сторінка 221 - ... he seemed to enjoy every pleasure and amusement of ordinary life, and to be interested in the most common topics of discourse : when his knowledge or learning at any time appeared, it was delivered with the utmost plainness, and without the least shadow of dogmatism. On his part he was charmed with the society of the good clergyman and his lovely daughter. He found in them the guileless manner of the earliest times, with the culture and accomplishment of the most refined ones. Every better feeling...
Сторінка 216 - s, the finer and more delicate sensibilities are seldom known to have place, or, if originally implanted there, are in a great measure extinguished by the exertions of intense study and profound investigation. Hence the idea of philosophy and...