The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumul 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... human nature 538 On extravagance in story - telling - Epitaph in -Pancras churchyard · 539 The intentions of a widow respecting her suitors On delay in marriage • ADDISON HUGHES . ADDISON · STEELE BUDGELL • On a clergyman spoiling one ...
... human nature 538 On extravagance in story - telling - Epitaph in -Pancras churchyard · 539 The intentions of a widow respecting her suitors On delay in marriage • ADDISON HUGHES . ADDISON · STEELE BUDGELL • On a clergyman spoiling one ...
Pagina 21
... human affairs . Aristotle says , that should a man live under ground , and there con- verse with works of art and mechanism , and should afterwards be brought up into the open day , and see the several glories of the heaven and earth ...
... human affairs . Aristotle says , that should a man live under ground , and there con- verse with works of art and mechanism , and should afterwards be brought up into the open day , and see the several glories of the heaven and earth ...
Pagina 27
... over their heads ; and , in a word , play a thousand pranks which many animals can do better than a man , instead of per- * Probably Mrs. Bicknell . forming to perfection what the human figure only is capable 466 . 27 SPECTATOR .
... over their heads ; and , in a word , play a thousand pranks which many animals can do better than a man , instead of per- * Probably Mrs. Bicknell . forming to perfection what the human figure only is capable 466 . 27 SPECTATOR .
Pagina 28
Corrected from the Originals. forming to perfection what the human figure only is capable of performing . It may perhaps appear odd , that I , who set up for a mighty lover , at least of virtue , should take so much pains to recommend ...
Corrected from the Originals. forming to perfection what the human figure only is capable of performing . It may perhaps appear odd , that I , who set up for a mighty lover , at least of virtue , should take so much pains to recommend ...
Pagina 30
... human nature , as well as the dark and gloomy . The desire of imitation may , perhaps , be a greater incentive to the practice of what is good , than the aversion we may conceive at what is blameable : the one immediately directs you ...
... human nature , as well as the dark and gloomy . The desire of imitation may , perhaps , be a greater incentive to the practice of what is good , than the aversion we may conceive at what is blameable : the one immediately directs you ...
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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.