The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 15
... late majesty , of glorious memory , and the most Christian king , are consi- dered at the conclusion of that treatise as heads of the protestant and Roman - catholic world in the following manner . ' There were not ever , before the ...
... late majesty , of glorious memory , and the most Christian king , are consi- dered at the conclusion of that treatise as heads of the protestant and Roman - catholic world in the following manner . ' There were not ever , before the ...
Pagina 40
... late act of parliament * has secured all party - liars from the penalty of a wager , and consequently made it unprofitable to attend to them . However , good - breeding obliges a man to maintain the figure of the keenest atten- tion ...
... late act of parliament * has secured all party - liars from the penalty of a wager , and consequently made it unprofitable to attend to them . However , good - breeding obliges a man to maintain the figure of the keenest atten- tion ...
Pagina 47
... late miscellany published by Mr. Pope , in which there are many excellent compositions of that ingenious gentleman . I have had a pleasure of the same kind in perusing a poem that is just published On the Prospect of Peace ; * and which ...
... late miscellany published by Mr. Pope , in which there are many excellent compositions of that ingenious gentleman . I have had a pleasure of the same kind in perusing a poem that is just published On the Prospect of Peace ; * and which ...
Pagina 50
... late war , being of opinion that all such deaths may be very well ac- counted for by the Christian system of powder and ball . I do therefore strictly forbid the Fates to cut the thread of man's life upon any pretence whatsoever ...
... late war , being of opinion that all such deaths may be very well ac- counted for by the Christian system of powder and ball . I do therefore strictly forbid the Fates to cut the thread of man's life upon any pretence whatsoever ...
Pagina 51
... late com- municated to me works of this nature , which , for their reputations and my own , I have hitherto suppressed . Had I printed every one that came to my hands , my book of speculations would have been little else but a book of ...
... late com- municated to me works of this nature , which , for their reputations and my own , I have hitherto suppressed . Had I printed every one that came to my hands , my book of speculations would have been little else but a book of ...
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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.