The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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13. oldal
... least encouragement given him ; but tired out with writing ( the only liberty allowed him ) , and receiving answers at cross purposes , destitute of all hopes , he at length wrote a formal adieu ; but it was very unfortunately timed ...
... least encouragement given him ; but tired out with writing ( the only liberty allowed him ) , and receiving answers at cross purposes , destitute of all hopes , he at length wrote a formal adieu ; but it was very unfortunately timed ...
27. oldal
... things that seemed incompatible , and must often remember the whole structure of a period , because , by the least transposition , that assemblage of words which is called a style , becomes utterly annihilated . D 2 60 . 27 THE GUARDIAN .
... things that seemed incompatible , and must often remember the whole structure of a period , because , by the least transposition , that assemblage of words which is called a style , becomes utterly annihilated . D 2 60 . 27 THE GUARDIAN .
29. oldal
... least touch of the finger , would whirl round , and present the reader at once with a delicious view of its full furniture . Thrice a day did I change , not only the books , but the lan- guages ; and had used my eye to such a D 3 60 ...
... least touch of the finger , would whirl round , and present the reader at once with a delicious view of its full furniture . Thrice a day did I change , not only the books , but the lan- guages ; and had used my eye to such a D 3 60 ...
34. oldal
... least nine lives in ten of the whole race of them . Scarce a boy in the streets but has in this point outdone Hercules himself , who was famous for killing a monster that had but three lives . Whether the unaccountable animosity against ...
... least nine lives in ten of the whole race of them . Scarce a boy in the streets but has in this point outdone Hercules himself , who was famous for killing a monster that had but three lives . Whether the unaccountable animosity against ...
35. oldal
... , which has no ears . Yet if , ' says he , we are ashamed to be so out of fashion as not to offend , let us at least offend with some discretion and measure . If we kill an animal for our provision , let 61 . 35 THE GUARDIAN .
... , which has no ears . Yet if , ' says he , we are ashamed to be so out of fashion as not to offend , let us at least offend with some discretion and measure . If we kill an animal for our provision , let 61 . 35 THE GUARDIAN .
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169. oldal - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
169. oldal - He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
262. oldal - LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
157. oldal - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
160. oldal - I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
171. oldal - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th...
158. oldal - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
262. oldal - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour : so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
127. oldal - They have already laid down many mechanical rules for compositions of this sort, but at the same time they cut off almost all undertakers from the possibility of ever performing them ; for the first qualification they unanimously require in a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made without a genius, nay without learning or much reading.
172. oldal - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough : he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs. A spider is no ill emblem of him. He has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.