The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 - English essays |
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... able . Socrates having deterred Alcibiades from the prayers and sacrifice which he was going to offer , by setting forth the above - mentioned difficulties of performing that duty as he ought , adds these words , We must therefore wait ...
... able . Socrates having deterred Alcibiades from the prayers and sacrifice which he was going to offer , by setting forth the above - mentioned difficulties of performing that duty as he ought , adds these words , We must therefore wait ...
Page 82
... able . But , sir , it is my misfortune to be married to a drone , who lives upon what I get , without bring- ing any thing into the common stock . Now , sir , as on the one hand I take care not to behave myself towards him like a wasp ...
... able . But , sir , it is my misfortune to be married to a drone , who lives upon what I get , without bring- ing any thing into the common stock . Now , sir , as on the one hand I take care not to behave myself towards him like a wasp ...
Page 95
... able in respect to him . An imitation of his faults , or a compliance , if not subservience to his vices , must be the measure of your conduct . When it comes to that , the unnatural state a man lives in , when his patron pleases , is ...
... able in respect to him . An imitation of his faults , or a compliance , if not subservience to his vices , must be the measure of your conduct . When it comes to that , the unnatural state a man lives in , when his patron pleases , is ...
Page 96
... able to act without their favour . Worthy pa- trons are like Plato's Guardian Angels , who are always doing good to their wards ; but negligent patrons are like Epicurus's gods , that lie lolling on the clouds , and instead of blessings ...
... able to act without their favour . Worthy pa- trons are like Plato's Guardian Angels , who are always doing good to their wards ; but negligent patrons are like Epicurus's gods , that lie lolling on the clouds , and instead of blessings ...
Page 97
... able to make their ap- pearance . If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education , which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine ...
... able to make their ap- pearance . If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education , which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine ...
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Page 275 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 256 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 274 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 273 - It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us, but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
Page 98 - ... the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.
Page 101 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...
Page 3 - ... till such time as he should sweat ; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic.
Page 131 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 148 - Wisdom is glorious and never fadeth away, yet she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her. She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.
Page 256 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...