The British Essayists: RamblerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... passed , and I have returned again to my old habit of wishing . Being accustomed to give the future full power over my mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of ...
... passed , and I have returned again to my old habit of wishing . Being accustomed to give the future full power over my mind , and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of ...
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... of fancy ; and was told that every action was grace , and that every accent was persuasion . " In this manner my life passed like a continual VOL . II . C triumph amidst acclamations , and envy , and court- ship 75 . 13 RAMBLER .
... of fancy ; and was told that every action was grace , and that every accent was persuasion . " In this manner my life passed like a continual VOL . II . C triumph amidst acclamations , and envy , and court- ship 75 . 13 RAMBLER .
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... passed his life in the duties of his profession , with great reputation for his knowledge and piety ; the other is a lieutenant of dragoons . The parson made no difficulty in the height of my elevation to check me when I was pert , and ...
... passed his life in the duties of his profession , with great reputation for his knowledge and piety ; the other is a lieutenant of dragoons . The parson made no difficulty in the height of my elevation to check me when I was pert , and ...
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... passed their lives amidst the levities of sportive idleness , or the warm professions of drunken friendship ; and fed their hopes with the promises of wretches whom their precepts had taught to scoff at truth . But when fools had ...
... passed their lives amidst the levities of sportive idleness , or the warm professions of drunken friendship ; and fed their hopes with the promises of wretches whom their precepts had taught to scoff at truth . But when fools had ...
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... passed their lives with public honours , and been distinguished by extraordinary performances . It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness except by a few . That merit which gives greatness and renown dif- fuses its influence to ...
... passed their lives with public honours , and been distinguished by extraordinary performances . It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness except by a few . That merit which gives greatness and renown dif- fuses its influence to ...
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Страница 117 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Страница 120 - Transform'd : but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy :' I fled, and cried out Death ; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death.
Страница 192 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Страница 109 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Страница 354 - ... and such pleasures only imparted as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be lost; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude. An elevated genius employed in little things appears, to use the simile of Longinus, like the sun in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less.
Страница 96 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Страница 32 - ... himself is ready to fall; not that he is more willing to die than formerly, but that he is more familiar to the death of others, and therefore is not alarmed so far as to consider how much nearer he approaches to his end.
Страница 73 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite ; both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Страница 162 - ... opportunities for dexterity or courage, since, though none could retreat back from danger, yet they might often avoid it by oblique direction. It was, however, not very common to steer with much care or prudence; for, by some universal infatuation...
Страница 118 - The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.