The Spectator, Svazek 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... Beauty - Dap- perwit's Question - from aGrocer in Love -from an Idol - a Minute from Mr. Sly 535. On vain Hopes of temporal Objects- Story of Alnaschar 536. The Author's Interview with a Lady - her Letter on proper Employment for Beaux ...
... Beauty - Dap- perwit's Question - from aGrocer in Love -from an Idol - a Minute from Mr. Sly 535. On vain Hopes of temporal Objects- Story of Alnaschar 536. The Author's Interview with a Lady - her Letter on proper Employment for Beaux ...
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... beauty to all but her husband , and never spreads her charms but to gladden him who has a right to them ; I say , I do honour to those who can be coquettes , and are not such ; but I despise all who would be so , and , in despair of ...
... beauty to all but her husband , and never spreads her charms but to gladden him who has a right to them ; I say , I do honour to those who can be coquettes , and are not such ; but I despise all who would be so , and , in despair of ...
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... beauty , an easy mien . I mean by an easy mien , one which can be on occasion easily affected : for I must tell you , dear Jenny , I hold one maxim , which is an uncommon one , to wit , that our great- est charms are owing to ...
... beauty , an easy mien . I mean by an easy mien , one which can be on occasion easily affected : for I must tell you , dear Jenny , I hold one maxim , which is an uncommon one , to wit , that our great- est charms are owing to ...
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... beauty of any passage in Virgil . You have not yet observed , Mr. Spectator , that the fine gentlemen of this age set up for hardness of heart ; and humanity has very little share in their pretences . He is a brave fellow who is always ...
... beauty of any passage in Virgil . You have not yet observed , Mr. Spectator , that the fine gentlemen of this age set up for hardness of heart ; and humanity has very little share in their pretences . He is a brave fellow who is always ...
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... beauty to pass away the whiling moments and intervals of life ; for with them every hour is heavy that is not joyful . But there is a sort of man of wit and ' sense , that can reflect upon his own make , and that of his partner , with ...
... beauty to pass away the whiling moments and intervals of life ; for with them every hour is heavy that is not joyful . But there is a sort of man of wit and ' sense , that can reflect upon his own make , and that of his partner , with ...
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Strana 139 - 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?
Strana 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Strana 254 - 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.
Strana 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Strana 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Strana 139 - 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...
Strana 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Strana 223 - 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 garments hovered in the wind.
Strana 88 - ... 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 own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Strana 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.