The Spectator, Svazek 8J. Tonson, 1729 |
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Strana 22
... fomething wild and diftracted in her Looks . Her Name was FANCY . She led up every Mortal to the appointed Place , after having very officioufly affifted him in ma- king up his Pack , and laying it upon his Shoulders . My Heart melted ...
... fomething wild and diftracted in her Looks . Her Name was FANCY . She led up every Mortal to the appointed Place , after having very officioufly affifted him in ma- king up his Pack , and laying it upon his Shoulders . My Heart melted ...
Strana 28
... fomething like that of those dif- creet Animals the Monkeys , who , as the Indians tell us , can fpeak if they would , but purposely avoid it that they may not be made to work . I have hither- to gained a Livelihood by holding my Tongue ...
... fomething like that of those dif- creet Animals the Monkeys , who , as the Indians tell us , can fpeak if they would , but purposely avoid it that they may not be made to work . I have hither- to gained a Livelihood by holding my Tongue ...
Strana 32
... fomething particular . She is the Relict of Sir Samp- fon Conqueft , fome time Juftice of the Quorum , Sir Sampson was feven Foot high , and two Foot in Breadth from the Tip of one Shoulder to the other . He had married three Wives ...
... fomething particular . She is the Relict of Sir Samp- fon Conqueft , fome time Juftice of the Quorum , Sir Sampson was feven Foot high , and two Foot in Breadth from the Tip of one Shoulder to the other . He had married three Wives ...
Strana 40
... fome- thing that did not pleafe him , he kicked down a great Jarr , that coft him above Ten Pound but the Week before . I then laid the Fragments together in a Heap , and gave him his Cane again , defiring him that if he chanced to be ...
... fome- thing that did not pleafe him , he kicked down a great Jarr , that coft him above Ten Pound but the Week before . I then laid the Fragments together in a Heap , and gave him his Cane again , defiring him that if he chanced to be ...
Strana 44
... fomething more than Man , I fhall not determine . THE Gallantry of this Action was judged fo great by the Spartans , that the Ephori , or chief Magiftrates , decreed he fhould be prefented with a Garland ; but as foon as they had done ...
... fomething more than Man , I fhall not determine . THE Gallantry of this Action was judged fo great by the Spartans , that the Ephori , or chief Magiftrates , decreed he fhould be prefented with a Garland ; but as foon as they had done ...
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Strana 271 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Strana 269 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Strana 23 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Strana 269 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Strana 23 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
Strana 146 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Strana 146 - I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular, and purposely receded from an established rule of the drama, when it has made way for a much higher beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been. Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and...
Strana 45 - ... that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded and disposed among softer lights than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Strana 47 - ... capacities, as they are creatures, that is, beings of finite and limited natures. The presence of every created being is confined to a certain measure of space ; and consequently his observation is stinted to a certain number of objects.
Strana 22 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities, and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.