The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Página 43
... advantage in employ- ing men of learning and parts , in business ; that their prosperity would sit more gracefully on them , and that we should not see many worthless persons shot up into the greatest figures of life . C. No. 470 ...
... advantage in employ- ing men of learning and parts , in business ; that their prosperity would sit more gracefully on them , and that we should not see many worthless persons shot up into the greatest figures of life . C. No. 470 ...
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... advantages which rise from hope , there is another which is none of the least , and that is , its great efficacy in preserving us from setting too high a value on present enjoyments . The saying of Cæsar is very well known . When he had ...
... advantages which rise from hope , there is another which is none of the least , and that is , its great efficacy in preserving us from setting too high a value on present enjoyments . The saying of Cæsar is very well known . When he had ...
Página 49
... and makes our present con- dition supportable , if not pleasing ; but a religious hope has still greater advantages . It does not only VOL . VII . E bear up the mind under her sufferings , but makes 471 . 49 SPECTATOR .
... and makes our present con- dition supportable , if not pleasing ; but a religious hope has still greater advantages . It does not only VOL . VII . E bear up the mind under her sufferings , but makes 471 . 49 SPECTATOR .
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... advantage above any other kind of hope , that it is able to revive the dying man , and to fill his mind not only with secret comfort and refreshment , but sometimes with rapture and transport . He triumphs in his agonies , whilst the ...
... advantage above any other kind of hope , that it is able to revive the dying man , and to fill his mind not only with secret comfort and refreshment , but sometimes with rapture and transport . He triumphs in his agonies , whilst the ...
Página 54
... advantages of sight ; every one that has it , every hour he makes use of it , finds them , feels them , en- joys them . 6 Thus , as our greatest pleasures and knowledge are derived from the sight , so has Providence been more curious in ...
... advantages of sight ; every one that has it , every hour he makes use of it , finds them , feels them , en- joys them . 6 Thus , as our greatest pleasures and knowledge are derived from the sight , so has Providence been more curious in ...
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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.