The Guardian: A New Edition, Carefully Revised, in Two Volumes; with Prefaces Historical and Biographical, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Nunn, 1822 |
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Page ii
... perhaps have been liable to the same objection , if he had not tempered the austerity of the preceptor with the playfulness of the friend and companion , and partaken of the amusements of his pupils while he provided for their ...
... perhaps have been liable to the same objection , if he had not tempered the austerity of the preceptor with the playfulness of the friend and companion , and partaken of the amusements of his pupils while he provided for their ...
Page vi
... perhaps be thought that there is a greater proportion of serious matter , and more . frequent use made of the letter - box than was usual with this writer . The contributors to this paper were not many , and of these few some have been ...
... perhaps be thought that there is a greater proportion of serious matter , and more . frequent use made of the letter - box than was usual with this writer . The contributors to this paper were not many , and of these few some have been ...
Page ix
... perhaps of his eloquence , that three junior fellows of Trinity College offered to accompany him , and exchange all hopes of preferment at home for 40l . per annum in the Atlantic ocean . In his life are detailed , at length , the manly ...
... perhaps of his eloquence , that three junior fellows of Trinity College offered to accompany him , and exchange all hopes of preferment at home for 40l . per annum in the Atlantic ocean . In his life are detailed , at length , the manly ...
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... perhaps there are few satires in the language superior to the receipt for an Epic poem in No. 78. In that part of the re- ceipt which directs the making of a tempest , the technicals of the poet and the apothecary are blended together ...
... perhaps there are few satires in the language superior to the receipt for an Epic poem in No. 78. In that part of the re- ceipt which directs the making of a tempest , the technicals of the poet and the apothecary are blended together ...
Page xv
... perhaps discover , or allow . GAY knew something of dress , for he had been apprentice to a silk - mercer , but " how long he continued behind the counter , or with what degree of softness and dexterity he received and accommodated the ...
... perhaps discover , or allow . GAY knew something of dress , for he had been apprentice to a silk - mercer , but " how long he continued behind the counter , or with what degree of softness and dexterity he received and accommodated the ...
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Page 248 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 249 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 203 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Page 155 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state! While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
Page 155 - To raise the genius, and to mend the heart. To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, -and be what they behold: For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Tyrants no more .their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept.
Page 249 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 248 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 266 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 165 - I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment, you may conclude it to have been a pun.
Page 203 - Till, by degrees, the floating mirror shines, Reflects each flower that on the border grows, And a new heaven in its fair bosom shows.