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... present should be in some measure rejected . It appears to have been written in an unlucky moment of caprice . To scrutinise the titles as- sumed by the ESSAYISTS , in this severe manner , would be to disfranchise the whole body , and ...
... present should be in some measure rejected . It appears to have been written in an unlucky moment of caprice . To scrutinise the titles as- sumed by the ESSAYISTS , in this severe manner , would be to disfranchise the whole body , and ...
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. written against the government , after the accession of the present royal family . Its object of opposi- tion was the protestant succession . It was fol- lowed , and nearly under the same management ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. written against the government , after the accession of the present royal family . Its object of opposi- tion was the protestant succession . It was fol- lowed , and nearly under the same management ...
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... to hunt after , through an heap of impertinencies : but even those are at present become wholly invisible , and quite swallowed up in the blaze of the Spectator . " THE GUARDIAN . ORIGINAL DEDICATION TO VOL . I : lvi HISTORICAL , & c .
... to hunt after , through an heap of impertinencies : but even those are at present become wholly invisible , and quite swallowed up in the blaze of the Spectator . " THE GUARDIAN . ORIGINAL DEDICATION TO VOL . I : lvi HISTORICAL , & c .
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... present fortune un- envied . For the public always reap greater advan- tage , from the example of successful merit , than the deserving man himself can possibly be possessed of ; your country knows how eminently you excel in the several ...
... present fortune un- envied . For the public always reap greater advan- tage , from the example of successful merit , than the deserving man himself can possibly be possessed of ; your country knows how eminently you excel in the several ...
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... present purpose . The Letter from Gnatho of the Cures performed by Flattery , and that of comparing Dress to Criticism , are Mr. Gay's . Mr. Martin , Mr. Philips , Mr. Tickell , Mr. Carey , Mr. Eusden , Mr. Ince and Mr. Hughes , have ob ...
... present purpose . The Letter from Gnatho of the Cures performed by Flattery , and that of comparing Dress to Criticism , are Mr. Gay's . Mr. Martin , Mr. Philips , Mr. Tickell , Mr. Carey , Mr. Eusden , Mr. Ince and Mr. Hughes , have ob ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Aguire ancient appear APRIL Arbor Porphyriana beauty better called character Charwell conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight desire discourse divisions of low dress easy eclogues endeavour eyes fancy favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give greater GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king labour lady Lizard laugh learning live look Lord lord Roscommon lover madam maid mankind manner Megaric merit mind mother nature neral never night observed occasion Othello paper passions pastoral pastoral poetry person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry reader reason satisfaction Scaron sense shepherds shew smile song soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE Syphax taste TATLER Theocritus thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Seite 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Seite 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Seite 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Seite 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
Seite 101 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Seite 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
Seite 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
Seite 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.