The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... three of the old Greek poets have given the same turn to a sentence which describes the happiness of man in this life : Τὸ ζῆν ἄλυπως , ἄνδρος ἐστὶν εὐτυχοῦς . " That man is most happy who is the least 22 548 . 22 SPECTATOR .
... three of the old Greek poets have given the same turn to a sentence which describes the happiness of man in this life : Τὸ ζῆν ἄλυπως , ἄνδρος ἐστὶν εὐτυχοῦς . " That man is most happy who is the least 22 548 . 22 SPECTATOR .
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... turn all my future endeavours that way . You must not therefore be surprised , my friend , if you hear that I am betaking myself to a more thoughtful kind of life , and if I meet you no more in this place . ' I could not but approve so ...
... turn all my future endeavours that way . You must not therefore be surprised , my friend , if you hear that I am betaking myself to a more thoughtful kind of life , and if I meet you no more in this place . ' I could not but approve so ...
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... turn appears to have piety to the gods , and a resigning spirit in its ap- plication . But if we consider the point with respect to our present knowledge , it will be less esteemed ; though the author himself , because he believed it ...
... turn appears to have piety to the gods , and a resigning spirit in its ap- plication . But if we consider the point with respect to our present knowledge , it will be less esteemed ; though the author himself , because he believed it ...
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... easy and gay , resembling Anacreon in its air , raised by such images , and pointed with such a turn as he might have used . I give it a place here , be- cause the author may have designed it for his honour D 2 551 . 35 SPECTATOR .
... easy and gay , resembling Anacreon in its air , raised by such images , and pointed with such a turn as he might have used . I give it a place here , be- cause the author may have designed it for his honour D 2 551 . 35 SPECTATOR .
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... turn , we join it with something that circumscribes and bounds it to the qualities of our subject . He who gives his praise in gross , will often appear either to have been a stranger to those he writes upon , or not to have found any ...
... turn , we join it with something that circumscribes and bounds it to the qualities of our subject . He who gives his praise in gross , will often appear either to have been a stranger to those he writes upon , or not to have found any ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted admirer agreeable Anacreon appear battle of Blenheim beautiful body character Cicero club consider creature delight desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fancy favour Flamstead fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour human humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar JUNE 23 kind king lady lately letter lived lives single look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Menander Middle Temple mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person philosopher pleased pleasure poet praise present quæ reader reason received ROSCOMMON says Shalum soul speak spect Spectator tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whig whole widow words writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 367 - 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...
Página 215 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Página 106 - 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.
Página 182 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 350 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 269 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...
Página 75 - 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 garment hovered in the wind.
Página 173 - 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.
Página 183 - ... the fleets of England. I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature, he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old Fellow of a college, who, when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish : " We are always doing," says he, " something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Página 80 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.