The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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Pàgina 3
... considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans , in the poetry , as much as in the subject to which it was ...
... considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans , in the poetry , as much as in the subject to which it was ...
Pàgina 17
... considers not only an ample fortune , but even the very necessaries of life , his pretence to food itself , at the mercy of his creditors , he cannot but look upon himself in the state of the dead , with his case thus much worse , that ...
... considers not only an ample fortune , but even the very necessaries of life , his pretence to food itself , at the mercy of his creditors , he cannot but look upon himself in the state of the dead , with his case thus much worse , that ...
Pàgina 18
... consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a citizen . Such would have it to say to their own souls , if possible , that they were merciful when they could have de- stroyed , rather than when it was in their power to have ...
... consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a citizen . Such would have it to say to their own souls , if possible , that they were merciful when they could have de- stroyed , rather than when it was in their power to have ...
Pàgina 23
... considers that every piece of news I send him is a word in his ear , and lets him into a secret . ' Having given you a sketch of this project , I shall , in the next place , suggest to you another for a monthly pamphlet , which I shall ...
... considers that every piece of news I send him is a word in his ear , and lets him into a secret . ' Having given you a sketch of this project , I shall , in the next place , suggest to you another for a monthly pamphlet , which I shall ...
Pàgina 26
... consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot ...
... consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 93 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Pàgina 60 - And nightly to the listening 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.
Pàgina 88 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Pàgina 134 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Pàgina 52 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Pàgina 171 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Pàgina 93 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pàgina 3 - Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise : II. O how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ?— But Thou canst read it there.
Pàgina 112 - ... every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him until he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodise his thoughts, has always, to borrow a phrase from...
Pàgina 16 - I passed this very moment by thy doors, And found them guarded by a troop of villains; " The sons of public rapine were destroying." They told me, by the sentence of the law They had commission to seize all thy fortune : Nay, more, Priuli's cruel hand had signed it. Here stood a ruffian, with a horrid face, Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate, Tumbled into a heap for public...