The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... particular weight lettered on both sides ; and , upon applying myself to the reading of it , I found on one side written , ' In the dialect of men , ' and underneath it , ' Calamities : ' on the other side was written , ' In the ...
... particular weight lettered on both sides ; and , upon applying myself to the reading of it , I found on one side written , ' In the dialect of men , ' and underneath it , ' Calamities : ' on the other side was written , ' In the ...
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... particular description of Manilius through all the parts of his excellent life . I shall now only draw him in his retirement , and pass over in silence the various arts , the courtly manners , and the unde- signing honesty by which he ...
... particular description of Manilius through all the parts of his excellent life . I shall now only draw him in his retirement , and pass over in silence the various arts , the courtly manners , and the unde- signing honesty by which he ...
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... particular persons , whilst the rest of mankind look upon them with coldness and indifference ; but he is the first whose entire good fortune it is ever to please and to be pleased , wherever he comes to be admired , and wherever he is ...
... particular persons , whilst the rest of mankind look upon them with coldness and indifference ; but he is the first whose entire good fortune it is ever to please and to be pleased , wherever he comes to be admired , and wherever he is ...
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... particular friends , or those whom they look upon as men of worth , than to procure wealth and honour for themselves . To an honest mind , the best perquisites of a place are the advan- tages it gives a man of doing good . Those who are ...
... particular friends , or those whom they look upon as men of worth , than to procure wealth and honour for themselves . To an honest mind , the best perquisites of a place are the advan- tages it gives a man of doing good . Those who are ...
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... particular passion which goes by the name of hope . 6 6 Our actual enjoyments are so few and transient , that man would be a very miserable being , were he not endowed with this passion , which gives him a taste of those good things ...
... particular passion which goes by the name of hope . 6 6 Our actual enjoyments are so few and transient , that man would be a very miserable being , were he not endowed with this passion , which gives him a taste of those good things ...
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acquaintance admiration agreeable appear beauty black tower body cerning city of London city of Westminster coach consider countenance creatures dear death desire discourse divine dream dress endeavour entertainment excellent eyes fancy fortune gentleman give give or keep hand happy head hear heard heart Honeycomb honour hope human humble servant humour husband imaginable infinite kind lady Lætitia late learned letter live look manner marriage married matter mind Mohair nature never obliged observed occasion OCTOBER 14 OVID paper particular passion perfection person pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus present pretty Procris reason Rechteren religion Sebastian of Portugal seems sense sorrow soul SPECTATOR tell thing Thomas Tickell thou thought tion told town Tunbridge VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous whole wife woman women word write young
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Página 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...
Página 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.