The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. 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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... amongst us . Though Mr. Addison , in his Spectator , No 124 , has asserted , that a man who publishes his works in a volume , has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his wri . tings to the world in loose sheets and single ...
... amongst us . Though Mr. Addison , in his Spectator , No 124 , has asserted , that a man who publishes his works in a volume , has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his wri . tings to the world in loose sheets and single ...
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... amongst us , I shall not think that what has been the heaviest part of my undertaking has been the most unprofitable . As I mean this to be a kind of liber circumcurrens , I have thought it not amiss to intitle it The Observer . NUMBER ...
... amongst us , I shall not think that what has been the heaviest part of my undertaking has been the most unprofitable . As I mean this to be a kind of liber circumcurrens , I have thought it not amiss to intitle it The Observer . NUMBER ...
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... among the audience , men of great genius in their own and a few of their friends ' estimation , who sat like so many mutes , without so much as moving a lip or a hand , or once rising from their seats , even to shift their pos- ture ...
... among the audience , men of great genius in their own and a few of their friends ' estimation , who sat like so many mutes , without so much as moving a lip or a hand , or once rising from their seats , even to shift their pos- ture ...
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... amongst us at present : neither is it a thing to be recom- mended to young authors , except under peculiar circumstances ; for they certainly expose themselves and their hearers to a situation very delicate at best , and which sometimes ...
... amongst us at present : neither is it a thing to be recom- mended to young authors , except under peculiar circumstances ; for they certainly expose themselves and their hearers to a situation very delicate at best , and which sometimes ...
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... among the rich and liberal ; nay , so general is their protection , that it comprehends a numerous importation of exotic tooth - drawers , dancers , and milliners , who find that England is the nursery of genius even the magnifying ...
... among the rich and liberal ; nay , so general is their protection , that it comprehends a numerous importation of exotic tooth - drawers , dancers , and milliners , who find that England is the nursery of genius even the magnifying ...
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Seite 208 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Seite 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean ; There, where your argosies with portly sail. Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curtsy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Seite 205 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Seite 179 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day ' From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Seite 74 - I'll go look A little, how it heightens. [Exit. Mam. Do. — My shirts I'll have of taffeta-sarsnet, soft and light As cobwebs; and for all my other raiment, It shall be such as might provoke the Persian, Were he to teach the world riot anew. My gloves of fishes' and birds' skins, perfumed With gums of paradise, and eastern air — Sur.
Seite 74 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Seite 178 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As, 'What's o'clock!
Seite 334 - ... smith by trade, and the farmer's men, as far as they are concerned. Mr. Brereton, the rector, would have him say nothing of the story, for that he can get no tenant, though he has offered the house for ten pounds a year less. Mr. P. the former incumbent, whom the apparition represented, was a man of a very ill report, supposed to have got children of his maid, and to have murthered them ; but I advised the curate to say nothing himself of this last part of P., but leave that to the parishioners,...
Seite 263 - Turkey grogram ravelled; if short, it hath a cape like a calf's tongue and is not so deep in his whole length (nor hath so much cloth in it, I will justify) as only the standing cape of a Dutchman's cloak.
Seite 336 - I leaped out of bed, and, not staying to put on my clothes, went out of my room and along a gallery to the door, which I found locked or bolted ; I desired him to unlock the door, for that I could not get in ; then he got out of bed and opened the door, which was near, and went immediately to bed again ; I went in three or four steps, and, it being a.