The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Página 58
... common as to hear men of this sort , speaking of themselves , add to their own merit ( as they think ) by impair- ing it , in praising themselves for their defects , freely allowing they commit some few frivolous errors , in arder to be ...
... common as to hear men of this sort , speaking of themselves , add to their own merit ( as they think ) by impair- ing it , in praising themselves for their defects , freely allowing they commit some few frivolous errors , in arder to be ...
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... common woman , but being resolved to do nothing without the advice of his friend Philander , he consulted him upon the occasion . Philander told him his mind freely , and represented his mistress to him in such strong colours , that the ...
... common woman , but being resolved to do nothing without the advice of his friend Philander , he consulted him upon the occasion . Philander told him his mind freely , and represented his mistress to him in such strong colours , that the ...
Página 74
... common - place topics , into which he never fails to turn the conversation , whatever was the occasion of it . Though the matter in debate be about Douay or Denain , it is ten to one but half his discourse runs upon the unreasonableness ...
... common - place topics , into which he never fails to turn the conversation , whatever was the occasion of it . Though the matter in debate be about Douay or Denain , it is ten to one but half his discourse runs upon the unreasonableness ...
Página 76
... common hedge , in a field , or in a meadow , as some of the greatest beauties of the place . The only method I observe in this particular , is to range in the same quarter the products of the same season , that they may make their ...
... common hedge , in a field , or in a meadow , as some of the greatest beauties of the place . The only method I observe in this particular , is to range in the same quarter the products of the same season , that they may make their ...
Página 83
... common with French- men to come to England for their finishing stroke of breeding , as it has been for Englishmen to go to France for it . 6 Thirdly , Whereas several great scholars , who might have been otherwise useful to the world ...
... common with French- men to come to England for their finishing stroke of breeding , as it has been for Englishmen to go to France for it . 6 Thirdly , Whereas several great scholars , who might have been otherwise useful to the world ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.