The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumul 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Pagina 6
... consider this sort of men thus carefully , are irresistibly exposed to their insinuations . The author of the following letter carries the matter so high , as to intimate that the liberties of England have been at the mercy of a prince ...
... consider this sort of men thus carefully , are irresistibly exposed to their insinuations . The author of the following letter carries the matter so high , as to intimate that the liberties of England have been at the mercy of a prince ...
Pagina 10
... as usual . Whilst I was here meditating on several subjects of morality , and considering the nature of many virtues and vices , as materials for those discourses with which * I daily entertain the public , I saw , 10 463 . SPECTATOR .
... as usual . Whilst I was here meditating on several subjects of morality , and considering the nature of many virtues and vices , as materials for those discourses with which * I daily entertain the public , I saw , 10 463 . SPECTATOR .
Pagina 16
... considering the pernicious consequences of such a resolution , took his sight away from him , and left him to stroll about the world in the blind condition wherein Chremylus beheld him . With much ado Chremylus prevailed upon him to go ...
... considering the pernicious consequences of such a resolution , took his sight away from him , and left him to stroll about the world in the blind condition wherein Chremylus beheld him . With much ado Chremylus prevailed upon him to go ...
Pagina 18
... consider what are the proper means of strengthening and confirming it in the mind of man . Those who delight in reading books of controversy , which are written on both sides of the question on points of faith , do very seldom arrive at ...
... consider what are the proper means of strengthening and confirming it in the mind of man . Those who delight in reading books of controversy , which are written on both sides of the question on points of faith , do very seldom arrive at ...
Pagina 19
... considering the weakness and limi- tation of our intellectual faculties . It was thus that Latimer , one of the glorious army of martyrs , who introduced the reformation in England , behaved himself in that great conference which was ...
... considering the weakness and limi- tation of our intellectual faculties . It was thus that Latimer , one of the glorious army of martyrs , who introduced the reformation in England , behaved himself in that great conference which was ...
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Pagina 22 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment ? that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Pagina 22 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Pagina 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Pagina 378 - 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 378 - 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— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Pagina 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Pagina 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Pagina 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in 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 idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Pagina 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.