The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumul 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Pagina 27
... dresses , that she could clap on round the face on purpose to demonstrate the force of habits in the diversity of the same countenance . Motion , and change of posture and aspect , has an effect no less surprising on the person of ...
... dresses , that she could clap on round the face on purpose to demonstrate the force of habits in the diversity of the same countenance . Motion , and change of posture and aspect , has an effect no less surprising on the person of ...
Pagina 32
... dress ; his outward garb is but the emblem of his mind . It is genteel , plain , and unaffected ; he knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing to the opinion which all have of his merit , and that he gives a lustre to the plainest ...
... dress ; his outward garb is but the emblem of his mind . It is genteel , plain , and unaffected ; he knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing to the opinion which all have of his merit , and that he gives a lustre to the plainest ...
Pagina 57
... dress ; Must he his virtues and his mind express ? CREECH . 6 SIR , ' TO THE SPECTATOR . I AM now in the country , and employ most of my time in reading , or thinking upon what I have read . Your paper comes constantly down to me , and ...
... dress ; Must he his virtues and his mind express ? CREECH . 6 SIR , ' TO THE SPECTATOR . I AM now in the country , and employ most of my time in reading , or thinking upon what I have read . Your paper comes constantly down to me , and ...
Pagina 80
... dress . ' MR . SPECTATOR , HOR . Ars Poet . v . 72 . IT happened lately that a friend of mine , who had many things to buy for his family , would oblige me to walk with him to the shops . He was very nice in his way , and fond of having ...
... dress . ' MR . SPECTATOR , HOR . Ars Poet . v . 72 . IT happened lately that a friend of mine , who had many things to buy for his family , would oblige me to walk with him to the shops . He was very nice in his way , and fond of having ...
Pagina 82
... dress of negligence , shall be but coldly received till he be proved by time , and esta- blished in a character . Such things as these we could recollect to have happened to our own knowledge so very often , that we concluded the author ...
... dress of negligence , shall be but coldly received till he be proved by time , and esta- blished in a character . Such things as these we could recollect to have happened to our own knowledge so very often , that we concluded the author ...
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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.