The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 70
... imagine , after such an acquaint- ance we might be exceeding merry without any offence ; as in calling to mind how many inven- tions I have been put to in deluding the master , how many hands forged for excuses , how many times been ...
... imagine , after such an acquaint- ance we might be exceeding merry without any offence ; as in calling to mind how many inven- tions I have been put to in deluding the master , how many hands forged for excuses , how many times been ...
Pagina 71
... imagine , sir , how troubled I am for this unhappy lady's misfortune , and beg you would insert this letter , that the husband may reflect upon this accident coolly . It is no small matter , the ease of a virtuous woman for her whole ...
... imagine , sir , how troubled I am for this unhappy lady's misfortune , and beg you would insert this letter , that the husband may reflect upon this accident coolly . It is no small matter , the ease of a virtuous woman for her whole ...
Pagina 97
... imagine ; and , though we know you to be so ele- gant a judge of beauty , yet there is none among all your various characters of fine women prefera- ble to Miranda . In a word , she is never guilty of doing any thing but one amiss ( if ...
... imagine ; and , though we know you to be so ele- gant a judge of beauty , yet there is none among all your various characters of fine women prefera- ble to Miranda . In a word , she is never guilty of doing any thing but one amiss ( if ...
Pagina 99
... imagine the confusion of the en- tertainer , who finding some of his friends very un- easy , desired to tell them the story of a great man , one Mr. Locke ( whom I find you frequently men- tion , ) that being invited to dine with the ...
... imagine the confusion of the en- tertainer , who finding some of his friends very un- easy , desired to tell them the story of a great man , one Mr. Locke ( whom I find you frequently men- tion , ) that being invited to dine with the ...
Pagina 114
... imagine , that you have in some of your speculations asserted to your readers the dignity of human nature . But you cannot be insensible that this is a controverted doctrine ; there are authors who consider human nature in 114 No. 537 ...
... imagine , that you have in some of your speculations asserted to your readers the dignity of human nature . But you cannot be insensible that this is a controverted doctrine ; there are authors who consider human nature in 114 No. 537 ...
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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.