The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... appear in all public places where she was sure to meet Brunetta : Brunetta was now prepared for the insult , and came to a public ball in a plain black silk mantua , attended by a beautiful negro girl in a petticoat of the same brocade ...
... appear in all public places where she was sure to meet Brunetta : Brunetta was now prepared for the insult , and came to a public ball in a plain black silk mantua , attended by a beautiful negro girl in a petticoat of the same brocade ...
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... appear improbable to those who live at a distance from the fashionable world ; but as it is a distinc- tion of a very singular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of ...
... appear improbable to those who live at a distance from the fashionable world ; but as it is a distinc- tion of a very singular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of ...
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... appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the mas- ter's pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient workman , and immediately , by the long lock of hair upon his forehead , discovered him to be Time ...
... appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the mas- ter's pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient workman , and immediately , by the long lock of hair upon his forehead , discovered him to be Time ...
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... appear dreams , or short intervals of amusement , from this one afflic- tion which has seized my very being . Pardon me , oh Pharamond , if my griefs give me leave , that I lay before you , in the anguish of a wounded mind , that you ...
... appear dreams , or short intervals of amusement , from this one afflic- tion which has seized my very being . Pardon me , oh Pharamond , if my griefs give me leave , that I lay before you , in the anguish of a wounded mind , that you ...
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... appears , And with sonorous trifles charms our ears . FRANCIS . t It is the custom of the Mahometans , if they see ... appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and vicissitude of things , knows to what use his works may ...
... appears , And with sonorous trifles charms our ears . FRANCIS . t It is the custom of the Mahometans , if they see ... appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and vicissitude of things , knows to what use his works may ...
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Сторінка 360 - ... 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 357 - What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Сторінка 356 - I ascended the high hills of 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 120 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Сторінка 120 - I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a law-suit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Сторінка 161 - So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Сторінка 357 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, ' Cast thy eyes eastward,' said he, 'and tell me what thou seest.' 'I See,' said I, ' a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it.
Сторінка 192 - ... could not forbear discovering greater expressions of mirth than ordinary upon the appearance of this monstrous face, under which, notwithstanding it was made to frown and stare in a most extraordinary manner, I could still discover a distant resemblance of my old friend. Sir Roger, upon seeing me laugh/ desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise. I at first kept my usual silence; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not...
Сторінка 358 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud hut many of...
Сторінка 143 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular; and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book : and at the same time employed an itinerant...