The Spectator, Volumul 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 41
... person is put in a public paper by a man who is angry with him , the real description of such person is hid in the deformity with which the angry man describes therefore this fellow always made his custo- him ; mers describe him as he ...
... person is put in a public paper by a man who is angry with him , the real description of such person is hid in the deformity with which the angry man describes therefore this fellow always made his custo- him ; mers describe him as he ...
Pagina 42
... A virtuous disposition , a good understanding , an agreeable person , and an easy fortune , are the things which should be chiefly regarded on this occasion . Because my present view is to direct a young lady , who 42 No. 522 . SPECTATOR .
... A virtuous disposition , a good understanding , an agreeable person , and an easy fortune , are the things which should be chiefly regarded on this occasion . Because my present view is to direct a young lady , who 42 No. 522 . SPECTATOR .
Pagina 43
... person , is preferable to him who is only rich , if it were only that good faculties may purchase riches , but riches cannot purchase worthy endowments . I do not mean that wit , and a capacity to entertain , is what should be highly ...
... person , is preferable to him who is only rich , if it were only that good faculties may purchase riches , but riches cannot purchase worthy endowments . I do not mean that wit , and a capacity to entertain , is what should be highly ...
Pagina 44
... person or mind : I say , there are those who think themselves bound to supply with good - nature the failings of those who love them , and who always think those the objects of love and pity who came to their arms the objects of joy and ...
... person or mind : I say , there are those who think themselves bound to supply with good - nature the failings of those who love them , and who always think those the objects of love and pity who came to their arms the objects of joy and ...
Pagina 50
... persons who in- tend to show their talents on so happy an occa- sion ; and being willing , as much as in me lies , to prevent that effusion of nonsense which we have good cause to apprehend ; I do hereby . strictly require every person ...
... persons who in- tend to show their talents on so happy an occa- sion ; and being willing , as much as in me lies , to prevent that effusion of nonsense which we have good cause to apprehend ; I do hereby . strictly require every person ...
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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.