The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Página 56
... live , dead more than half : O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse , Without all hopes of day . " The enjoyment of sight then being so great a blessing , and the loss of it so terrible an ...
... live , dead more than half : O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse , Without all hopes of day . " The enjoyment of sight then being so great a blessing , and the loss of it so terrible an ...
Página 78
... live in gardens , have never thought of contriving a winter garden , which should consist of such trees only as never cast their leaves . We have very often little snatches of sunshine and fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of ...
... live in gardens , have never thought of contriving a winter garden , which should consist of such trees only as never cast their leaves . We have very often little snatches of sunshine and fair weather in the most uncomfortable parts of ...
Página 84
... live ; it is hoped that this ill humour will be much suppressed , when we can have recourse to the fashions of their times , produce them in our vindication , and be able to show , that it might have been as expensive in queen ...
... live ; it is hoped that this ill humour will be much suppressed , when we can have recourse to the fashions of their times , produce them in our vindication , and be able to show , that it might have been as expensive in queen ...
Página 89
... live . When these are joined to men of warm spirits , without temper or learning , they are frequently corrected with stripes ; but one of our famous lawyers * is of opinion , that this ought to be used sparingly ; as I remember , those ...
... live . When these are joined to men of warm spirits , without temper or learning , they are frequently corrected with stripes ; but one of our famous lawyers * is of opinion , that this ought to be used sparingly ; as I remember , those ...
Página 90
... live with so violent a creature ? He observed- to him , that they who learn to keep a good seat on horseback , mount the least manageable they can get ; and , when they have mastered them , they are sure never to be discomposed on the ...
... live with so violent a creature ? He observed- to him , that they who learn to keep a good seat on horseback , mount the least manageable they can get ; and , when they have mastered them , they are sure never to be discomposed on the ...
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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.