The Spectator, Volumen8Tonson, 1717 |
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THE Coffee - houses have ever fince been my chief Places of Refort , where I have made the greatest Im- provements ; in order to which I have taken a parti- cular Care never to be of the fame Opinion with the Man I converfed with . I ...
THE Coffee - houses have ever fince been my chief Places of Refort , where I have made the greatest Im- provements ; in order to which I have taken a parti- cular Care never to be of the fame Opinion with the Man I converfed with . I ...
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... Places does not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy Subjects Barbarians , because we fpeak what we ... Place to meet • me told me , That he was extreamly forry for the Storm • I had met with just before my Arrival . I ...
... Places does not know what is done in the other . They call thee and thy Subjects Barbarians , because we fpeak what we ... Place to meet • me told me , That he was extreamly forry for the Storm • I had met with just before my Arrival . I ...
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... Place , after having very officiously affifted him in ma- king up his Pack , and laying it upon his Shoulders . My Heart melted within me to fee my Fellow - Crea- tures groaning under their respective Burthens , and to confider that ...
... Place , after having very officiously affifted him in ma- king up his Pack , and laying it upon his Shoulders . My Heart melted within me to fee my Fellow - Crea- tures groaning under their respective Burthens , and to confider that ...
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... Place and clapped my Finger upon my upper Lip . Befides , as my Nofe was exceeding Prominent , I gave it two or three unlucky Knocks as I was playing my Hand about my Face , and aiming at fome other Part of it . I faw two other ...
... Place and clapped my Finger upon my upper Lip . Befides , as my Nofe was exceeding Prominent , I gave it two or three unlucky Knocks as I was playing my Hand about my Face , and aiming at fome other Part of it . I faw two other ...
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... Place among us for an Evening , we have unani- moufly agreed to allow you one Minute in ten , without Interruption . I am , SIR , Your humble Servant , S. T. P. S. You may find us at my Lady Betty Clack's , • who will leave Orders with ...
... Place among us for an Evening , we have unani- moufly agreed to allow you one Minute in ten , without Interruption . I am , SIR , Your humble Servant , S. T. P. S. You may find us at my Lady Betty Clack's , • who will leave Orders with ...
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Página 267 - ... 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.
Página 265 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 140 - 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.
Página 74 - We make provisions for this life, as though it were never to have an end, and for the other life, as though it were never to have a beginning. Should a spirit of superior rank, who is a stranger to human nature, accidentally alight upon the earth, and take a survey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us...
Página 57 - ... him. He knows that his helper is at hand, and is always nearer to him than any thing else can be, which is capable of annoying or terrifying him.
Página 12 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Página 57 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
Página 139 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Página 13 - ... angry father. The graceless youth, in less than a quarter. of an hour, pulled the old gentleman by the beard, and had...
Página 70 - He further added, that a single Ray of it dissipates Pain, and Care, and Melancholy from the Person on whom it falls. In short, says he, its Presence naturally changes every Place into a kind of Heaven.