Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Bind 2C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
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... early in the morning , before the copies were distributed , and or- dered it to be given to Mr. E. Budgell , that it might add weight to the solicitation which Addison was then making for a place for Mr. Budgell . periodical labours ...
... early in the morning , before the copies were distributed , and or- dered it to be given to Mr. E. Budgell , that it might add weight to the solicitation which Addison was then making for a place for Mr. Budgell . periodical labours ...
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... early period of his life , the pride of self - opinion , and the fury of ungoverned resentment , blasted all his hopes and views , and gradually led him into the commission of errors and extravagances , which at length terminated in ...
... early period of his life , the pride of self - opinion , and the fury of ungoverned resentment , blasted all his hopes and views , and gradually led him into the commission of errors and extravagances , which at length terminated in ...
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... early shewed a decided partiality for the sister arts of poetry and music ; an inclination which , rino , which , by way of honour , he assumed , and put upon his sign . He kept a public - house , not only at the time of his death , but ...
... early shewed a decided partiality for the sister arts of poetry and music ; an inclination which , rino , which , by way of honour , he assumed , and put upon his sign . He kept a public - house , not only at the time of his death , but ...
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... early accepted of a place in the office of ordnance , and acted also as secre- tary to several commissions for the purchase of land , deemed requisite for the security of the royal docks at Chatham and Portsmouth . Dur- ing these ...
... early accepted of a place in the office of ordnance , and acted also as secre- tary to several commissions for the purchase of land , deemed requisite for the security of the royal docks at Chatham and Portsmouth . Dur- ing these ...
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... early as 1702 , he is too loose and paraphrastic , his version of Ovid's Pyrumus and Thisbe , is truly elegant and exact , and affords the English reader a very com- petent idea of perhaps the most pleasing tale in the collection of the ...
... early as 1702 , he is too loose and paraphrastic , his version of Ovid's Pyrumus and Thisbe , is truly elegant and exact , and affords the English reader a very com- petent idea of perhaps the most pleasing tale in the collection of the ...
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Side 67 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Side 66 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Side 88 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Side 381 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Side 88 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Side 104 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Side 297 - That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Side 227 - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Side 342 - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Side 381 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.