The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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Strana 2
... better writers contributed , occasionally , to carry on this work ; but its success was , properly , owing to the match- less pen of Mr. Addison . - H . think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at 2 [ No. 1 . SPECTATOR .
... better writers contributed , occasionally , to carry on this work ; but its success was , properly , owing to the match- less pen of Mr. Addison . - H . think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at 2 [ No. 1 . SPECTATOR .
Strana 3
... carried me into all the countries of Europe in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen : nay , to such a degree was my curiosity raised , that having read the controver- sies of some great men concerning the antiquities of ...
... carried me into all the countries of Europe in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen : nay , to such a degree was my curiosity raised , that having read the controver- sies of some great men concerning the antiquities of ...
Strana 4
... carried on with burning zeal and wonderful learning to the days of the " Spectator , " although death had removed Greaves from the discussion in 1652. In No. 7. the " Spectator " says , " I design to visit the next masquerade in the ...
... carried on with burning zeal and wonderful learning to the days of the " Spectator , " although death had removed Greaves from the discussion in 1652. In No. 7. the " Spectator " says , " I design to visit the next masquerade in the ...
Strana 24
... carrying a cage full of little birds upon his shoulder ; and , as I was wondering with myself what use he would put them to , he was met very luckily by an acquaintance , who had the same curiosity . Upon his asking him what he had upon ...
... carrying a cage full of little birds upon his shoulder ; and , as I was wondering with myself what use he would put them to , he was met very luckily by an acquaintance , who had the same curiosity . Upon his asking him what he had upon ...
Strana 54
... carried to her grave with the same pomp and magnifi- cence ; being sent thither partly by the loss of one lover , and partly by the possession of another . I have often reflected with myself on this unaccountable hu- mour in womankind ...
... carried to her grave with the same pomp and magnifi- cence ; being sent thither partly by the loss of one lover , and partly by the possession of another . I have often reflected with myself on this unaccountable hu- mour in womankind ...
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Strana 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Strana 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Strana 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Strana 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Strana 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Strana 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Strana 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Strana 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Strana 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Strana 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.