The Spectator, Volym 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... persons of the age , I take leave cribe this last to you , as to a gentle- who hath ever been ambitious of ap- g in ... person well qualified for a dedication . nay possibly disappoint my readers , 1 Sir , I shall not compliment you upon ...
... persons of the age , I take leave cribe this last to you , as to a gentle- who hath ever been ambitious of ap- g in ... person well qualified for a dedication . nay possibly disappoint my readers , 1 Sir , I shall not compliment you upon ...
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... person , or fortune ; nor any other the like perfections , which you possess whe- ther you will or no ; but shall only touch upon those which are of your own acquir- ing , and in which every one must allow you have a real merit . Your ...
... person , or fortune ; nor any other the like perfections , which you possess whe- ther you will or no ; but shall only touch upon those which are of your own acquir- ing , and in which every one must allow you have a real merit . Your ...
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... persons who came thither were chaste or other- wise . They used to meet and fawn upon such as were chaste , caressing them as the friends of their master Vulcan ; but flew at those who were polluted , and never ceased barking at them ...
... persons who came thither were chaste or other- wise . They used to meet and fawn upon such as were chaste , caressing them as the friends of their master Vulcan ; but flew at those who were polluted , and never ceased barking at them ...
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... person must have for their own productions ; and I begin to think I have treated my correspondents a little too uncivilly in stringing them all together on a file , and letting them lie so long unregarded . I shall therefore , for the ...
... person must have for their own productions ; and I begin to think I have treated my correspondents a little too uncivilly in stringing them all together on a file , and letting them lie so long unregarded . I shall therefore , for the ...
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... person in whom Heaven has made virtue visible ; and , were you yourself to be in her company , you could never , with all your loqua- city , say enough of her good - humor and sense . I send you the outlines of a picture , which I can ...
... person in whom Heaven has made virtue visible ; and , were you yourself to be in her company , you could never , with all your loqua- city , say enough of her good - humor and sense . I send you the outlines of a picture , which I can ...
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
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Sida 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Sida 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Sida 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Sida 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Sida 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Sida 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Sida 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Sida 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Sida 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Sida 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.