The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... least part of it . This birth - right of mankind above all other creatures , some are forced by hunger to sell , like Esau , for bread and broth : but the greatest part of men make such a bargain for the delivery - up of themselves , as ...
... least part of it . This birth - right of mankind above all other creatures , some are forced by hunger to sell , like Esau , for bread and broth : but the greatest part of men make such a bargain for the delivery - up of themselves , as ...
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... least apt to be inflamed to the disturbance of the commonwealth their manner of life inclines them , and interest binds them , to love peace : in our late mad and miserable civil wars , all other trades , even to the meanest , set forth ...
... least apt to be inflamed to the disturbance of the commonwealth their manner of life inclines them , and interest binds them , to love peace : in our late mad and miserable civil wars , all other trades , even to the meanest , set forth ...
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... least a superfluity , and this a defect , in our manner of education ; and therefore I could wish ( but cannot in these times much hope to see it ) : that one college in each university were erected , OF AGRICULTURE . 47.
... least a superfluity , and this a defect , in our manner of education ; and therefore I could wish ( but cannot in these times much hope to see it ) : that one college in each university were erected , OF AGRICULTURE . 47.
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... least a mile Beyond long orator Fabius's style . But , hold , ye , whom no fortune e'er endears , Gentlemen , malecontents , and mutineers , • -as it does them . ] This application of his aphorism covers the false wit of the expression ...
... least a mile Beyond long orator Fabius's style . But , hold , ye , whom no fortune e'er endears , Gentlemen , malecontents , and mutineers , • -as it does them . ] This application of his aphorism covers the false wit of the expression ...
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... least for nine hun- dred years . What a strange alteration is this of human life and manners ! and yet we see an imita- tion of it in every man's particular experience ; for we begin not the care of life till it be half spent , and ...
... least for nine hun- dred years . What a strange alteration is this of human life and manners ! and yet we see an imita- tion of it in every man's particular experience ; for we begin not the care of life till it be half spent , and ...
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Seite 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Seite 116 - 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.
Seite 121 - Even when I was a very young Boy at School, instead of running about on Holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with some one Companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Seite 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Seite 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Seite 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Seite 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.