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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... poor return to these same hospitable ambassadors for their good entertainment of him , yet I am not quite so ready with my answer to a certain female corre- spondent , who in consequence of some discourse upon Dampers the other day , in ...
... poor return to these same hospitable ambassadors for their good entertainment of him , yet I am not quite so ready with my answer to a certain female corre- spondent , who in consequence of some discourse upon Dampers the other day , in ...
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... poor gentleman dispatched for his officiousness upon a freezing errand through a great hall , to see that things were set in order , and make report when they were ready . I could not help giving my friend the merchant a significant ...
... poor gentleman dispatched for his officiousness upon a freezing errand through a great hall , to see that things were set in order , and make report when they were ready . I could not help giving my friend the merchant a significant ...
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... poor Sir Theodore was soliciting into a blaze , working the bellows with might and main to little purpose ; for the billets were so wet , that Apollo himself with all his beams would have been foiled to set them in a flame : the honest ...
... poor Sir Theodore was soliciting into a blaze , working the bellows with might and main to little purpose ; for the billets were so wet , that Apollo himself with all his beams would have been foiled to set them in a flame : the honest ...
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... poor gentleman's unmerited rebuke , and in terms much severer than before ; it was to no purpose he attempted to bring Susan the house- maid in for some share of the blame : his plea was disallowed ; and though I must own it was not the ...
... poor gentleman's unmerited rebuke , and in terms much severer than before ; it was to no purpose he attempted to bring Susan the house- maid in for some share of the blame : his plea was disallowed ; and though I must own it was not the ...
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... poor and lowly , to women and to little children ; in him was no form of comeliness that men should desire ; no artifice or trick to catch applause or to excite surprise : if he exercised his miraculous power in healing the infirm , or ...
... poor and lowly , to women and to little children ; in him was no form of comeliness that men should desire ; no artifice or trick to catch applause or to excite surprise : if he exercised his miraculous power in healing the infirm , or ...
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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.