The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 61
... affection ? Benevolus , both in public and private , and all oc- casions of life , appears to have every good quali ... affections , but in their taste of the same improvements and diver- sions . Pliny , one of the finest gentlemen and ...
... affection ? Benevolus , both in public and private , and all oc- casions of life , appears to have every good quali ... affections , but in their taste of the same improvements and diver- sions . Pliny , one of the finest gentlemen and ...
Pagina 62
... affection to me . She reads my writings , studies them , and even gets them by heart . You would smile to see the concern she is in when I have a cause to plead , and the joy she shows when it is over . She finds means to have the first ...
... affection to me . She reads my writings , studies them , and even gets them by heart . You would smile to see the concern she is in when I have a cause to plead , and the joy she shows when it is over . She finds means to have the first ...
Pagina 75
... affection for his peo- ple , he further told them that their course of life was of such pernicious consequence to the glory and grandeur of the Roman nation , that he could not choose but tell them , that all other crimes put together ...
... affection for his peo- ple , he further told them that their course of life was of such pernicious consequence to the glory and grandeur of the Roman nation , that he could not choose but tell them , that all other crimes put together ...
Pagina 77
... affection , and parents of a worthy race , pine under unhappy pas- sions for such as have not attention to observe , or virtue enough to prefer them to their common wenches . Now , Mr. Spectator , I must be free to own to you that I ...
... affection , and parents of a worthy race , pine under unhappy pas- sions for such as have not attention to observe , or virtue enough to prefer them to their common wenches . Now , Mr. Spectator , I must be free to own to you that I ...
Pagina 127
... affections may change their objects in the operation . It is a very deli- cate subject to talk upon ; but if it were but hinted , I am in hopes it would give the parties concerned some reflexion that might expedite our happiness . There ...
... affections may change their objects in the operation . It is a very deli- cate subject to talk upon ; but if it were but hinted , I am in hopes it would give the parties concerned some reflexion that might expedite our happiness . There ...
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Pagina 139 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Pagina 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Pagina 254 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Pagina 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Pagina 139 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Pagina 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Pagina 223 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered •with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind.
Pagina 88 - ... ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Pagina 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.