The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 11
... honour to those who can be coquettes , and are not such ; but I despise all who would be so , and , in despair of arriving at it themselves , hate and vili- fy all those who can . But be that as it will , in an- swer to your desire of ...
... honour to those who can be coquettes , and are not such ; but I despise all who would be so , and , in despair of arriving at it themselves , hate and vili- fy all those who can . But be that as it will , in an- swer to your desire of ...
Pagina 20
... honour of the good old man . I have likewise a letter from the butler , who took so much care of me last sum- mer when I was at the knight's house . As my friend the butler mentions , in the simplicity of his heart , several ...
... honour of the good old man . I have likewise a letter from the butler , who took so much care of me last sum- mer when I was at the knight's house . As my friend the butler mentions , in the simplicity of his heart , several ...
Pagina 36
... honour , truth , and virtue , to me . ' I curb myself , and will not tell you that this kindness cut my heart in twain , when I expected an accusation for some passionate starts of mine in some parts of our time together , to say ...
... honour , truth , and virtue , to me . ' I curb myself , and will not tell you that this kindness cut my heart in twain , when I expected an accusation for some passionate starts of mine in some parts of our time together , to say ...
Pagina 41
... honour to travel with this gentleman I speak of in search of one of his falsehoods ; and have been present when they have described the very man they have spoken to , as him who first re- ported it , tall or short , black or fair , a ...
... honour to travel with this gentleman I speak of in search of one of his falsehoods ; and have been present when they have described the very man they have spoken to , as him who first re- ported it , tall or short , black or fair , a ...
Pagina 43
... honour , and who believes he offends against both these , if he does not look upon the woman who chose him to be under his protection in sickness and health , with the utmost gratitude , whether from that mo- ment No. 522 , 43 SPECTATOR .
... honour , and who believes he offends against both these , if he does not look upon the woman who chose him to be under his protection in sickness and health , with the utmost gratitude , whether from that mo- ment No. 522 , 43 SPECTATOR .
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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.