The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volume 2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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Pagina 7
... writer of it might not be in the leaft fufpected , and for fome other : reafons , I choose not to give it the form of a letter : But , if befides the faults of the compofition , there be any thing in it more proper for a correfpondent ...
... writer of it might not be in the leaft fufpected , and for fome other : reafons , I choose not to give it the form of a letter : But , if befides the faults of the compofition , there be any thing in it more proper for a correfpondent ...
Pagina 17
... writing , and in all the folemn offices of our religion . As in the inftances I have given , we have epitom- ized many of our peculiar words to the detriment of our tongue , fo on other occafions we have drawn two words into one , which ...
... writing , and in all the folemn offices of our religion . As in the inftances I have given , we have epitom- ized many of our peculiar words to the detriment of our tongue , fo on other occafions we have drawn two words into one , which ...
Pagina 18
... writers , when they find the relatives whom , which , or they , at their mercy , whether they may have admiffion or not ; and will never be decided till we have fomething like an academy , that by the best authorities and rules drawn ...
... writers , when they find the relatives whom , which , or they , at their mercy , whether they may have admiffion or not ; and will never be decided till we have fomething like an academy , that by the best authorities and rules drawn ...
Pagina 22
... writing that was current in my younger days , would have laft- ed for my time , I was flartled at the picture of mod ... writers , the great depravity of our tafte , and continual corruption of our ftile . But , Sir , be- fore you give ...
... writing that was current in my younger days , would have laft- ed for my time , I was flartled at the picture of mod ... writers , the great depravity of our tafte , and continual corruption of our ftile . But , Sir , be- fore you give ...
Pagina 23
... writing , to proceed from the mistakes and wrong measures in our common me- thods of education , which I always looked upon as one of our national grievances , and a fingularity that ren- ders us , no leis than our situation , -Penitus ...
... writing , to proceed from the mistakes and wrong measures in our common me- thods of education , which I always looked upon as one of our national grievances , and a fingularity that ren- ders us , no leis than our situation , -Penitus ...
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Pagina 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Pagina 233 - 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. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Pagina 146 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Pagina 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Pagina 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Pagina 232 - 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.
Pagina 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Pagina 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Pagina 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Pagina 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.