The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... beautiful which is not just , and has not its founda- tion in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable , of which good sense is not the ground - work . Boileau has endeavoured to ...
... beautiful which is not just , and has not its founda- tion in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable , of which good sense is not the ground - work . Boileau has endeavoured to ...
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... beautiful aspect ; her name was Truth . On her right hand there marched a male deity , who bore several quivers on his shoulders , and grasped several arrows in his hand . His name was Wit . The approach of these two enemies filled all ...
... beautiful aspect ; her name was Truth . On her right hand there marched a male deity , who bore several quivers on his shoulders , and grasped several arrows in his hand . His name was Wit . The approach of these two enemies filled all ...
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... beautiful objects as yours ever beheld . If castles , forests , ruins , fine women , and graceful men , can please you , I dare promise you much satisfaction , if you will appear at my auction on Friday next . A sight is , I suppose ...
... beautiful objects as yours ever beheld . If castles , forests , ruins , fine women , and graceful men , can please you , I dare promise you much satisfaction , if you will appear at my auction on Friday next . A sight is , I suppose ...
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... beautiful instances of this nature in the following passages , which are like- wise written upon the same subject : Whoso dis- covereth secrets , loseth his credit , and shall never find a friend to his mind . Love thy friend , and be ...
... beautiful instances of this nature in the following passages , which are like- wise written upon the same subject : Whoso dis- covereth secrets , loseth his credit , and shall never find a friend to his mind . Love thy friend , and be ...
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... beautiful to the most refined . The old song of Chevy - Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England , and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works . Sir Philip Sidney , in ...
... beautiful to the most refined . The old song of Chevy - Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England , and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works . Sir Philip Sidney , in ...
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Page 221 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
Page 239 - So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 223 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Page 195 - ... my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of an humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Page 203 - He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle, and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him.
Page 33 - Cowley ; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the -delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature. which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined.
Page 54 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Page 264 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 30 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
Page 54 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...