The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 13
... sure but in being admired , and have yet never failed of attaining the approbation of the man whose regard I had a 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 ) ...
... sure but in being admired , and have yet never failed of attaining the approbation of the man whose regard I had a 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 ) ...
Pagina 42
... sure he would never find him out . These and many other hints I could suggest to you for the elucidation of all fictions : but I leave it to your own sagacity to improve or neglect this speculation . I am , sir , T. Your most obedient ...
... sure he would never find him out . These and many other hints I could suggest to you for the elucidation of all fictions : but I leave it to your own sagacity to improve or neglect this speculation . I am , sir , T. Your most obedient ...
Pagina 44
... - pid than it really deserves ; but I am sure it is not to exalt the commerce with an ingenious compan- ion too high , to say that every new accident or object , which comes in such a gentleman's way , SPECTATOR . No. 622 .
... - pid than it really deserves ; but I am sure it is not to exalt the commerce with an ingenious compan- ion too high , to say that every new accident or object , which comes in such a gentleman's way , SPECTATOR . No. 622 .
Pagina 47
... sure , the 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 ...
... sure , the 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 ...
Pagina 62
... sure it will be a pleasure to you to hear that she proves worthy of her father , worthy of you , and of your and her ancestors . Her ingenuity is admir- able ; her frugality extraordinary . She loves me , the surest pledge of her virtue ...
... sure it will be a pleasure to you to hear that she proves worthy of her father , worthy of you , and of your and her ancestors . Her ingenuity is admir- able ; her frugality extraordinary . She loves me , the surest pledge of her virtue ...
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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.