The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 13
... mind to . You see all the men who make a figure in the world ( as wise a look as they are pleased to put upon the matter ) are moved by the same vanity as I am . What is there in ambition , but to make other people's wills depend upon ...
... mind to . You see all the men who make a figure in the world ( as wise a look as they are pleased to put upon the matter ) are moved by the same vanity as I am . What is there in ambition , but to make other people's wills depend upon ...
Pagina 14
... mind , begun , And mutually bequeath'd from sire to son : Religious spite and pious spleen bred first The quarrel which so long the bigots nurst : Each calls the other's god a senseless stock : His own divine . TATE . Of all the ...
... mind , begun , And mutually bequeath'd from sire to son : Religious spite and pious spleen bred first The quarrel which so long the bigots nurst : Each calls the other's god a senseless stock : His own divine . TATE . Of all the ...
Pagina 18
... mind has been strengthened and confirmed by one contin- ued struggle , and Heaven has educated him by adversity to a quick sense of the distresses and miseries of mankind , which he was born to re- dress . In just scorn of the trivial ...
... mind has been strengthened and confirmed by one contin- ued struggle , and Heaven has educated him by adversity to a quick sense of the distresses and miseries of mankind , which he was born to re- dress . In just scorn of the trivial ...
Pagina 26
... a thought can be stirring in the mind of man , with- out producing a suitable revolution in his exte- riors , which will easily discover itself to an adept in the theory of the phiz . Hence it is 23 No. 518 : SPECTATOR .
... a thought can be stirring in the mind of man , with- out producing a suitable revolution in his exte- riors , which will easily discover itself to an adept in the theory of the phiz . Hence it is 23 No. 518 : SPECTATOR .
Pagina 34
... Providence it is that every gush of passion is a step towards the relief of it ; and there is a certain comfort in the very act of sorrowing , which , I sup- pose , arises from a secret consciousness in the mind 34 No. 520 . SPECTATOR .
... Providence it is that every gush of passion is a step towards the relief of it ; and there is a certain comfort in the very act of sorrowing , which , I sup- pose , arises from a secret consciousness in the mind 34 No. 520 . 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.