The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumul 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Pagina 8
... greatest ease imaginable , all suggestions of jealousy ; and the people could not entertain notions of any thing terrible in him , whom they saw every way agreeable . This scrap of the familiar part of that prince's history I thought ...
... greatest ease imaginable , all suggestions of jealousy ; and the people could not entertain notions of any thing terrible in him , whom they saw every way agreeable . This scrap of the familiar part of that prince's history I thought ...
Pagina 19
... greatest absurdity to be wavering and unsettled , without closing with that side which appears the most safe and the most probable . The first rule , therefore , which I shall lay down , is this ; that when by reading or discourse we ...
... greatest absurdity to be wavering and unsettled , without closing with that side which appears the most safe and the most probable . The first rule , therefore , which I shall lay down , is this ; that when by reading or discourse we ...
Pagina 20
... greatest abilities ; but to these last I would propose , in the second place , that they should lay up in their memories , and always keep by them in readiness those arguments which appear to them of the greatest strength , and which ...
... greatest abilities ; but to these last I would propose , in the second place , that they should lay up in their memories , and always keep by them in readiness those arguments which appear to them of the greatest strength , and which ...
Pagina 29
... greatest and best princes of all the Roman em- perors , who , no doubt , heard with the greatest sa- tisfaction , what even the most disinterested persons , and at so large a distance of time , cannot read with- out admiration . Cæsar ...
... greatest and best princes of all the Roman em- perors , who , no doubt , heard with the greatest sa- tisfaction , what even the most disinterested persons , and at so large a distance of time , cannot read with- out admiration . Cæsar ...
Pagina 43
... greatest figures of life . C. No. 470. FRIDAY , AUGUST 29 , 1712 . Turpe est difficiles habere nugas , Et stultus labor est ineptiarum . MART . 2 Epig . lxxxvi . ' Tis folly only , and defect of sense , Turns trifles into things of ...
... greatest figures of life . C. No. 470. FRIDAY , AUGUST 29 , 1712 . Turpe est difficiles habere nugas , Et stultus labor est ineptiarum . MART . 2 Epig . lxxxvi . ' Tis folly only , and defect of sense , Turns trifles into things of ...
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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.