The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Band 2

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C. Dilly, 1798
 

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Seite 53 - repay myfeJf for the facrifice ; I will 'have " the fineft girls that money can purchafe — " Money, did I fay ? What a found has " that ! — Am I to buy beauty with money, " and 'cannot I buy love too ? .for there is " no pleafure even in beauty without love. " I find myfelf gravelled by this unlucky " queftion : Mercenary love ! that is non" fenfe ; it is flat hypocrify ; it is difgufting.
Seite 208 - I followed it, and it, going out at the door, turned its back towards me: it went a little along the gallery; I followed it a little into the gallery, and it disappeared, where there was no corner for it to turn, and before it came to the end of the gallery, where was the stairs. Then I found myself very cold from my feet as high as my middle, though I...
Seite 195 - A neighbouring physician was called out of bed in the night to come to him with all haste in this extremity : he found him sitting up in his bed supported by pillows, his countenance full of horror, his breath struggling as in the article...
Seite 209 - ... or fifty years old; the eyes half shut, the arms hanging down; the hands visible beneath the sleeve ; of a middle stature. I related this description to Mr. John Lardner, rector of Havant, and to Major Battin of Langstone in Havant parish ; they both said the description agreed very well to Mr. P. a former rector of the place, who has been dead above twenty years : upon this the tenant and his wife left the house, which has remained void since.
Seite 207 - I desired him to unlock the door, for that I could not get in; then he got out of bed and opened the door, which was near, and went immediately to bed again. I went in three or four steps, and, it being a...
Seite 55 - But if I give up the gaieties of a town life, and the club, and the gaming-table, and the girls, for a wife and the country, I will have the sports of the country in perfection ; I will keep the best pack of hounds in England, and hunt every day in the week.
Seite 72 - ... he -had" thrown out of his future good offices and protection. — The noble vifitor now defired leave to introduce his fon, who was waiting in the coach, and hoped Gemellus might be allowed to pay his duty at the fame time. This was a furprize upon Euphorion, which he could not parry, and the young friends were immediately ulhered in by the 'exulting lawyer.
Seite 204 - Anno 1695, on a Monday, about nine or ten at night, all being gone to bed, except the maid with the child, the maid being in the kitchen, and having raked up the fire, took a candle in one hand, and the child in the other arm, and turning about saw...
Seite 264 - ... favourably of such a disposition, and although much of his discernment may be the effect of a good judgment and proper knowledge of the world, yet there must be a great proportion of sensibility, candour, diffidence, and natural modesty, in the composition of a faculty so conciliating and so graceful. A man may have many good qualities, and yet, if he is unacquainted with the world, he will rarely be found to understand those apt and happy moments of which I am now speaking ; for it is a knowledge...
Seite 63 - ... censuring his want of discipline for not correcting so stubborn a temper and so idle a disposition. When he returned to school the master sent for him to his house, and questioned him upon the matter of complaint in his father's letter, observing that the charge being for offences out of school, he did not think it right to call him publicly to account ; but as he believed him to be a boy of honour, he expected to hear the whole truth fairly related : this drew forth the whole narrative, and...

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