The British Essayists: The Looker-onAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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admiration advantage æra Allworth Amelia analogy ancient ANTHONY TRUEMAN Antoninus Pius argument from analogy arts beauty biographer bosom called centripetal force character Cicero circumstances colour consider constitution contemplation countenance course curiosity delight discovery dreams effects Eugenio excellent fancy fashionable favour feel female folly fresh genius gentleman ginal give grace hand happiness heart honour hope human humour imitation Indian idols innocent judgement kind letter lives look LOOKER-ON ments mind Miranda moral mother nature neighbour nerality never object observe paper passion Patrick O'Bryan person philosopher physiognomy piece of modesty Plato pleasure Plutarch political present produced promise proofs readers reason religion remark rules seemed sensible sentiment Simon Olive Simon Olive-branch Sir William Temple society solemn sorrow sort soul spirit sure taste thing thought tion truth turn virtue virtuous walk whole young youth
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139 ページ - Time out of mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
86 ページ - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
138 ページ - So saying, on he led his radiant files,. Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought: him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
60 ページ - Now turning from the wintry signs, the Sun* His course exalted through the Ram had run ; And whirling up the skies, his chariot drove Through Taurus, and the lightsome realms of Love...
139 ページ - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
34 ページ - Tis I, that, methinks, have most cause to complain, Who am crampt and confin'd like a slave in a chain. I did but step out, on some weighty affairs, To visit, last night, my good friends in the stars, When, before I was got half as high as the moon, You...
137 ページ - Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, hoth when we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works hehold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
117 ページ - ... naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd ev'ry Vice on Christian ground...
60 ページ - When first the tender blades of grass appear, And buds, that yet the blast of Eurus fear, Stand at the door of life, and doubt to clothe the year : Till gentle heat, and soft repeated rains, Make the green blood to dance within their veins : Then, at their call, embolden'd out they come, And swell the gems, and burst the narrow room ; Broader and broader yet, their blooms display, Salute the welcome sun, and entertain the day. Then from their breathing souls the sweets...
36 ページ - Rousseau on that head, who thinks that " the empire of woman is the empire of softness, of address, of complacency : her commands are caresses ; her menaces are tears.