The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 12
... whole assembly into a grin , as forming no terrors from such a rival . But we had not been long in the room before I overheard the meritorious gentleman above mentioned say with an oath , There is no raillery in the thing , she ...
... whole assembly into a grin , as forming no terrors from such a rival . But we had not been long in the room before I overheard the meritorious gentleman above mentioned say with an oath , There is no raillery in the thing , she ...
Pagina 21
... whole country , as well as his poor servants , who loved him , I may say , better than we did our lives . I am afraid he caught his death the last county - sessions , where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman , and her ...
... whole country , as well as his poor servants , who loved him , I may say , better than we did our lives . I am afraid he caught his death the last county - sessions , where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman , and her ...
Pagina 22
... whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts , and in their mourn- ing suits ; the men in frize , and the women in ri- ding - hoods . Captain Sentry , my master's ne- phew , has taken possession of the Hall - house , and the whole ...
... whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts , and in their mourn- ing suits ; the men in frize , and the women in ri- ding - hoods . Captain Sentry , my master's ne- phew , has taken possession of the Hall - house , and the whole ...
Pagina 31
... whole chasm in nature , from a plant to a man , is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures , rising one over ano- ther , by such a gentle and easy ascent , that the little transactions and deviations from one species to another are ...
... whole chasm in nature , from a plant to a man , is filled up with diverse kinds of creatures , rising one over ano- ther , by such a gentle and easy ascent , that the little transactions and deviations from one species to another are ...
Pagina 50
... caution and circumspection . I desire that the same rule may be extended to his whole fraternity of hea- then gods ; it being my design to condemn every poem to the flames in which Jupiter thunders , or 50 No. 525 . SPECTATOR .
... caution and circumspection . I desire that the same rule may be extended to his whole fraternity of hea- then gods ; it being my design to condemn every poem to the flames in which Jupiter thunders , or 50 No. 525 . 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.