The Spectator, Svazek 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Strana 16
... pass for the substantial things they are only to express , there would need no more to enslave a country but to adorn a court ; for while every man's va- nity makes him believe himself capable of be- coming luxury , enjoyments are a ...
... pass for the substantial things they are only to express , there would need no more to enslave a country but to adorn a court ; for while every man's va- nity makes him believe himself capable of be- coming luxury , enjoyments are a ...
Strana 37
... pass through afflictions in common with all who are in human nature , yet their conscious in- tegrity shall undermine their affliction ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to their integrity , from a reflexion of the use of ...
... pass through afflictions in common with all who are in human nature , yet their conscious in- tegrity shall undermine their affliction ; nay , that very affliction shall add force to their integrity , from a reflexion of the use of ...
Strana 43
... 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 eyes of ...
... 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 eyes of ...
Strana 48
... passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen mythology is not only excusable , but graceful , because it is the design of such compositions to divert , by adapting the fabulous machines of the ancients 48 No. 523 ...
... passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen mythology is not only excusable , but graceful , because it is the design of such compositions to divert , by adapting the fabulous machines of the ancients 48 No. 523 ...
Strana 63
... pass between London and Westmin- ster . As I have great confidence in the capacity , resolution , and integrity , of the person deputed by me to give an account of enormities , I doubt not but I shall soon have before me all proper no ...
... pass between London and Westmin- ster . As I have great confidence in the capacity , resolution , and integrity , of the person deputed by me to give an account of enormities , I doubt not but I shall soon have before me all proper no ...
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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.