The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. 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], 1808 |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 100
Sivu 2
... give an opportunity for the sublimest thoughts and conceptions . Plutarch tells us of a heathen who was singing an hymn to Diana , in which he celebrated her for her delight in human sacrifices , and other instances of cruelty and ...
... give an opportunity for the sublimest thoughts and conceptions . Plutarch tells us of a heathen who was singing an hymn to Diana , in which he celebrated her for her delight in human sacrifices , and other instances of cruelty and ...
Sivu 5
... Give me leave to allow myself no respite from labour . Ir is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world , and be of no character or significancy in it . To be ever unconcerned , and ever looking on new objects with an ...
... Give me leave to allow myself no respite from labour . Ir is an inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world , and be of no character or significancy in it . To be ever unconcerned , and ever looking on new objects with an ...
Sivu 6
... give way to those of nine , they of nine to the generation of twelve ; and they of twelve disappear , and make room for the fashionable world , who have made two o'clock the noon of the day . When we first put off from shore , we soon ...
... give way to those of nine , they of nine to the generation of twelve ; and they of twelve disappear , and make room for the fashionable world , who have made two o'clock the noon of the day . When we first put off from shore , we soon ...
Sivu 7
... give you to under- stand she is in humour to laugh at you . You must have often seen the coachmen make signs with their fingers , as they drive by each other , to intimate how much they have got that day . They can carry on that ...
... give you to under- stand she is in humour to laugh at you . You must have often seen the coachmen make signs with their fingers , as they drive by each other , to intimate how much they have got that day . They can carry on that ...
Sivu 9
... give him six- pence to go into the next ale - house and save his life . He urged , with a melancholy face , that all his family had died of thirst . All the mob have humour , and two or three began to take the jest ; by which Mr. Sturdy ...
... give him six- pence to go into the next ale - house and save his life . He urged , with a melancholy face , that all his family had died of thirst . All the mob have humour , and two or three began to take the jest ; by which Mr. Sturdy ...
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acquainted agreeable appear beauty body command consider conversation countenance coxcomb dear delight desire Dictamnus discourse divine dreams dress duke of Bavaria duke of Burgundy entertained epigram excellent eyes favour folly fortune gentleman give greatest hand happy head heard heart honest honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagination ingenious innocent kind lady learning letter live look mankind manner marriage married matter ment merit mind mirth modesty Mohair nature never obliged observed occasion paper particular pass passion person Phaëton Pharamond pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus pretty racter reason Rechteren reflexion religion Rhynsault Salic law satisfaction Sebastian of Portugal seems sense SEPT sir Robert Viner sorrow soul SPECTATOR tell temper thing thou thought tion told town Tunbridge VIRG virtue whole wife woman women word write young
Suositut otteet
Sivu 60 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Sivu 60 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Sivu 53 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Sivu 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Sivu 60 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Sivu 172 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Sivu 3 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Sivu 2 - If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope for.
Sivu 193 - ... the state of his soul, whether he was of the number of the elect ; what was the occasion of his conversion ; upon what day of the month and hour of the day it happened ; how it was carried on, and when completed ? The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death...
Sivu 171 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.