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 |
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... Beauty 511. Will Honeycomb's Proposal of a Fair for Marriage --- Sale of unmarried Women . 512. On giving Advice · ADDISON 513. Meditation on Death , a Hymn 514. Vision of Mount Parnassus • · STEELE THE SPECTATOR . N ° 453. SATURDAY ...
... Beauty 511. Will Honeycomb's Proposal of a Fair for Marriage --- Sale of unmarried Women . 512. On giving Advice · ADDISON 513. Meditation on Death , a Hymn 514. Vision of Mount Parnassus • · STEELE THE SPECTATOR . N ° 453. SATURDAY ...
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... beauty , colour , and sweetness , to some of their choice flowers , which flourish to this day , and which few of the moderns can effect . These are becoming enough and agreeable in their seasons , and do often handsomely adorn an ...
... beauty , colour , and sweetness , to some of their choice flowers , which flourish to this day , and which few of the moderns can effect . These are becoming enough and agreeable in their seasons , and do often handsomely adorn an ...
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... beauty in this psalm which was entirely new to me , and which I was going to lose ; and that is , that the poet utterly conceals the presence of God in the beginning of it , and rather lets a possessive pronoun go without a substantive ...
... beauty in this psalm which was entirely new to me , and which I was going to lose ; and that is , that the poet utterly conceals the presence of God in the beginning of it , and rather lets a possessive pronoun go without a substantive ...
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... beauty till she moved . All the charms of an agreeable person are then in their highest exertion , every limb and fea- ture appears with its respective grace . It is from this observation that I cannot help being so passion- ate an ...
... beauty till she moved . All the charms of an agreeable person are then in their highest exertion , every limb and fea- ture appears with its respective grace . It is from this observation that I cannot help being so passion- ate an ...
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... beauty ; and , I dare say , there is no one who knew him well , but can repeat more well - turned compliments , as well as smart re- partees of Mr. Eastcourt's , than of any other man in England . This was easily to be observed in his ...
... beauty ; and , I dare say , there is no one who knew him well , but can repeat more well - turned compliments , as well as smart re- partees of Mr. Eastcourt's , than of any other man in England . This was easily to be observed in his ...
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Page 60 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 171 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 60 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 60 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 171 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 53 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
Page 2 - If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope for.
Page 59 - The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.