The British Essayists: GuardianJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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13. oldal
... received as if he had committed some strange offence . If he asked her father's leave to visit her , the old ... receiving answers at cross purposes , destitute of all hopes , he at length wrote a formal adieu ; but it was very ...
... received as if he had committed some strange offence . If he asked her father's leave to visit her , the old ... receiving answers at cross purposes , destitute of all hopes , he at length wrote a formal adieu ; but it was very ...
23. oldal
... received with universal applause . There cannot be a greater argument of the general good understanding of a people , than a sudden consent to give their approbation of a sentiment which has no emotion in it . If it were spoken with ...
... received with universal applause . There cannot be a greater argument of the general good understanding of a people , than a sudden consent to give their approbation of a sentiment which has no emotion in it . If it were spoken with ...
24. oldal
... received not so great advantages from her patriot , as Britain will from this admirable re- presentation of him . Our British Cato improves our language , as well as our morals , nor will it be in the power of tyrants to rob us of him ...
... received not so great advantages from her patriot , as Britain will from this admirable re- presentation of him . Our British Cato improves our language , as well as our morals , nor will it be in the power of tyrants to rob us of him ...
32. oldal
... receiving any recompense in another life for their ill treatment in this . It is observable of those noxious animals , which have qualities most powerful to injure us , that they naturally avoid mankind , and never hurt us unless ...
... receiving any recompense in another life for their ill treatment in this . It is observable of those noxious animals , which have qualities most powerful to injure us , that they naturally avoid mankind , and never hurt us unless ...
62. oldal
... received and multiplied , in a scene of vengeance . All this I have often observed with abundance of concern ; and having a perfect desire to further the happiness of mankind , I lately set myself to consider the cause from whence such ...
... received and multiplied , in a scene of vengeance . All this I have often observed with abundance of concern ; and having a perfect desire to further the happiness of mankind , I lately set myself to consider the cause from whence such ...
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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.