The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Página 69
... married to him above a fortnight . The truth of it is , a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wed- ding clothes . When she has made her own choice , for form's sake she sends a congé d'élire to her friends . If we look ...
... married to him above a fortnight . The truth of it is , a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wed- ding clothes . When she has made her own choice , for form's sake she sends a congé d'élire to her friends . If we look ...
Página 70
... marry my lady Betty Single , who , by the way , is one of the greatest for- tunes about town . I stared him full in the face upon so strange a question ; upon which he immediately gave me an inventory of her jewels and estate , add- ing ...
... marry my lady Betty Single , who , by the way , is one of the greatest for- tunes about town . I stared him full in the face upon so strange a question ; upon which he immediately gave me an inventory of her jewels and estate , add- ing ...
Página 86
... married condition unhappy , but for want of judgment or temper in the man . The truth is , we generally make love in a style and with sentiments very unfit for ordinary life : they are half theatrical , half romantic . By this means we ...
... married condition unhappy , but for want of judgment or temper in the man . The truth is , we generally make love in a style and with sentiments very unfit for ordinary life : they are half theatrical , half romantic . By this means we ...
Página 87
... marriage state . Such a man can hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and , when they run over his head , he is not disturbed at their noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he ...
... marriage state . Such a man can hear the cries of children with pity instead of anger ; and , when they run over his head , he is not disturbed at their noise , but is glad of their mirth and health . Tom Trusty has told me , that he ...
Página 88
... married man , who has not bid adieu to the fashions and false gallantries of the town , is perplexed with every thing around him . In both these cases men cannot , indeed , make a sillier figure , than in repeating such pleasures and ...
... married man , who has not bid adieu to the fashions and false gallantries of the town , is perplexed with every thing around him . In both these cases men cannot , indeed , make a sillier figure , than in repeating such pleasures and ...
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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.