The British Essayists, Том 8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... considers not the circumstances of time , or engrosses the conversation , or makes himself the subject of his discourse , or pays no re- gard to the company he is in . HAVING notified to my good friend Sir Roger that I should set out ...
... considers not the circumstances of time , or engrosses the conversation , or makes himself the subject of his discourse , or pays no re- gard to the company he is in . HAVING notified to my good friend Sir Roger that I should set out ...
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... consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee : to speak indis- creetly what we are obliged to hear , by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle , is in No 132 . 3 SPECTATOR .
... consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee : to speak indis- creetly what we are obliged to hear , by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle , is in No 132 . 3 SPECTATOR .
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... considering the use I should have made of it ) I never travelled in my life ; but I do not know whether I could have spoken of any foreign country with more familiarity than I do at present , in com- pany who are strangers to me . I ...
... considering the use I should have made of it ) I never travelled in my life ; but I do not know whether I could have spoken of any foreign country with more familiarity than I do at present , in com- pany who are strangers to me . I ...
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... consider the com- mands they give . But there is nothing more com- mon , than to see a fellow ( who if he were reduced to it , would not be hired by any man living ) lament that he is troubled with the most worthless dogs in nature . It ...
... consider the com- mands they give . But there is nothing more com- mon , than to see a fellow ( who if he were reduced to it , would not be hired by any man living ) lament that he is troubled with the most worthless dogs in nature . It ...
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... consider " This wiseacre was reckoned by the parish , who did not understand him , a most excel- lent preacher ; but that he read too much , and was so humble that he did not trust enough to his own parts . Next to these ingenious ...
... consider " This wiseacre was reckoned by the parish , who did not understand him , a most excel- lent preacher ; but that he read too much , and was so humble that he did not trust enough to his own parts . Next to these ingenious ...
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Сторінка 123 - 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. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Сторінка 141 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
Сторінка 123 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see, rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
Сторінка 126 - ... waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Сторінка 125 - I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Сторінка 217 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Сторінка 122 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 'the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 217 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Сторінка 130 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those* that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
Сторінка 122 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.