The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays ...Lackington and Company and J. Mawman, 1817 |
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... striking advantages in the pos- session of wealth , that the inheritance of a great estate devolving upon a man in the vigour of mind and body , appears to the eye of a speculation as a lot of singular felicity . There are some ...
... striking advantages in the pos- session of wealth , that the inheritance of a great estate devolving upon a man in the vigour of mind and body , appears to the eye of a speculation as a lot of singular felicity . There are some ...
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... strike me in the gale ; Like Egypt's blight his breath is all alive : His very dew is poison , honey - sweet , Teeming with putrefaction ; in his fog The locust and the caterpillar swarm , And vegetable nature falls before them : Open ...
... strike me in the gale ; Like Egypt's blight his breath is all alive : His very dew is poison , honey - sweet , Teeming with putrefaction ; in his fog The locust and the caterpillar swarm , And vegetable nature falls before them : Open ...
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... striking contrast to the or- namented grounds about it - I am surprised , ' added he , you can see any beauty in those paltry huts . ' -Before I could make reply , an old peasant had approached us , and humbly enquired of Attalus , when ...
... striking contrast to the or- namented grounds about it - I am surprised , ' added he , you can see any beauty in those paltry huts . ' -Before I could make reply , an old peasant had approached us , and humbly enquired of Attalus , when ...
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... strike without pre- facing the blow by saying to themselves - This man deserves to die . Foolish wretches , what computa- tion must they make of life , who devote so great a portion of it to miseries and reproaches of their own creating ...
... strike without pre- facing the blow by saying to themselves - This man deserves to die . Foolish wretches , what computa- tion must they make of life , who devote so great a portion of it to miseries and reproaches of their own creating ...
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... striking at the foundation of the most splendid fabric Superstition ever reared on earth : These Gentiles are not a rude and barbarous race , but men of illuminated minds , acute philoso- phers , eloquent orators , powerful reasoners ...
... striking at the foundation of the most splendid fabric Superstition ever reared on earth : These Gentiles are not a rude and barbarous race , but men of illuminated minds , acute philoso- phers , eloquent orators , powerful reasoners ...
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Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 134 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 111 - I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 157 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue...