The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 1
... admired as a very eminent poet . The dispassionate temperature which constituted a solid judgment , and qualified him for the cool disquisitions of criticism and morality , rendered him incapable of that animated spirit which VOL . III ...
... admired as a very eminent poet . The dispassionate temperature which constituted a solid judgment , and qualified him for the cool disquisitions of criticism and morality , rendered him incapable of that animated spirit which VOL . III ...
Pàgina 4
... admiration is the effect of ignorance is a truth universally confessed ; and nothing so forcibly excites the wonder of the illiterate Plebeian as the character of profound erudition . Dazzled by the splendour of literary honours , many ...
... admiration is the effect of ignorance is a truth universally confessed ; and nothing so forcibly excites the wonder of the illiterate Plebeian as the character of profound erudition . Dazzled by the splendour of literary honours , many ...
Pàgina 27
... admire Mr. or Mrs. such a one's coat , gown , cap , shoe , leg , or hand , but forget the hero and the heroine , the poet and the poem . The taste for ridicule , which greatly prevails in a mean , selfish , debauched , and trifling age ...
... admire Mr. or Mrs. such a one's coat , gown , cap , shoe , leg , or hand , but forget the hero and the heroine , the poet and the poem . The taste for ridicule , which greatly prevails in a mean , selfish , debauched , and trifling age ...
Pàgina 28
... admiring it , or else all the muses themselves might rack their inventions in composing the melancholy tale , with no other effect than that of diffusing sleep or smiles thoughout Pit , Box , and Gallery . No. CXXIV . On the Influence ...
... admiring it , or else all the muses themselves might rack their inventions in composing the melancholy tale , with no other effect than that of diffusing sleep or smiles thoughout Pit , Box , and Gallery . No. CXXIV . On the Influence ...
Pàgina 36
... admire the wisdom of certain self- elected legislators of graceful behaviour , who seem to forbid us to laugh , with much greater strictness than they would have prohibited the violation of the Decalogue . To be remarkable for laughing ...
... admire the wisdom of certain self- elected legislators of graceful behaviour , who seem to forbid us to laugh , with much greater strictness than they would have prohibited the violation of the Decalogue . To be remarkable for laughing ...
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Pàgina 172 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Pàgina 171 - ... little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh. — I saw the iron enter into his soul ! — I burst into tears. I could not sustain the picture of confinement...
Pàgina 164 - ... against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune.
Pàgina 194 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Pàgina 11 - Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pàgina 152 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Pàgina 171 - Maria, though not tall, was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms; affliction had touched her looks with something that was scarce earthly, — still she was feminine; and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes, or the eye looks for in woman...
Pàgina 164 - No ! the charges against me are all of one kind : that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far, — further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Pàgina 255 - But, even in these, topics incidentally arise, which require elevated expression, and an inverted construction. Not to raise the style on these occasions, is to write unnaturally ; for nature teaches us to express animated emotions of every kind in animated language. The dependent writes unnaturally to a superior, in the style of familiarity. The suppliant writes unnaturally, if he rejects the figures dictated by distress. Conversation admits of every style but the poetic; and what are letters but...
Pàgina 17 - ... whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue and kill it upon his own estate. But the rigour of these new constitutions vested the sole property of all the game in England in the king alone; and no man was entitled to disturb any fowl of the air, or any beast of the field, of such kinds as were specially reserved for the royal amusement of the...