The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 7
... Conversation - Letter by the Ambassa- dor of Bantam . 558. Endeavours of Mankind to get rid of their Burthens , a Dream . 559. The same concluded ... 560. Letters , from the Dumb Doctor - from a pert Baggage - on the Author's recover ...
... Conversation - Letter by the Ambassa- dor of Bantam . 558. Endeavours of Mankind to get rid of their Burthens , a Dream . 559. The same concluded ... 560. Letters , from the Dumb Doctor - from a pert Baggage - on the Author's recover ...
Pagina 26
... conversation , and the knowledge of the world , give their limbs and features their full play . ' As you have considered human nature in all its lights , you must be extremely well apprized , that there is a very close correspondence ...
... conversation , and the knowledge of the world , give their limbs and features their full play . ' As you have considered human nature in all its lights , you must be extremely well apprized , that there is a very close correspondence ...
Pagina 44
... conversation of one who has no imagination to be fired at the several occa- sions and objects which come before him , or who cannot strike out of his reflexions new paths of pleasing discourse . Honest Will Thrush and his wife , though ...
... conversation of one who has no imagination to be fired at the several occa- sions and objects which come before him , or who cannot strike out of his reflexions new paths of pleasing discourse . Honest Will Thrush and his wife , though ...
Pagina 59
... conversation . It was determined among those airy critics , that the appellation of a sober man should signify a spiritless fellow . And I am apt to think it was about the same time that good - nature , a word so peculiarly elegant in ...
... conversation . It was determined among those airy critics , that the appellation of a sober man should signify a spiritless fellow . And I am apt to think it was about the same time that good - nature , a word so peculiarly elegant in ...
Pagina 70
... conversation , as often , and oftener , than the strict discipline of the school would allow of . You may easily imagine , after such an acquaint- ance we might be exceeding merry without any offence ; as in calling to mind how many ...
... conversation , as often , and oftener , than the strict discipline of the school would allow of . You may easily imagine , after such an acquaint- ance we might be exceeding merry without any offence ; as in calling to mind how many ...
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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.