The Spectator, Volum 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Side 19
... particular scenes of it were successful ? -for there does not want a skilful eye and resolute arm to observe and grasp the occasion . A prince , who from- ( 6 Gloria- -Fuit Ilium et ingens " " " Troy is no more , and Ilium was a town ...
... particular scenes of it were successful ? -for there does not want a skilful eye and resolute arm to observe and grasp the occasion . A prince , who from- ( 6 Gloria- -Fuit Ilium et ingens " " " Troy is no more , and Ilium was a town ...
Side 20
... particular comes from a whig justice of peace , who was always sir Roger's enemy and an- tagonist . I have letters both from the chaplain and captain Sentry , which mention nothing of it , but are filled with many particulars to the ...
... particular comes from a whig justice of peace , who was always sir Roger's enemy and an- tagonist . I have letters both from the chaplain and captain Sentry , which mention nothing of it , but are filled with many particulars to the ...
Side 23
... particular the Act of Uniformity , with some passages in it marked by Sir Roger's own hand . Sir Andrew found that they related to two or three points which he had disputed with Sir Roger , the last time he appeared at the club . Sir ...
... particular the Act of Uniformity , with some passages in it marked by Sir Roger's own hand . Sir Andrew found that they related to two or three points which he had disputed with Sir Roger , the last time he appeared at the club . Sir ...
Side 24
... to yourself and to the public . It belongs to the church of Stebon - Heath , commonly called Stepney . Whether or no it be that the people of that parish have a particular genius for an epitaph , 24 No. 518 . SPECTATOR .
... to yourself and to the public . It belongs to the church of Stebon - Heath , commonly called Stepney . Whether or no it be that the people of that parish have a particular genius for an epitaph , 24 No. 518 . SPECTATOR .
Side 25
Alexander Chalmers. that parish have a particular genius for an epitaph , or that there be some poet among them who un- dertakes that work by the great , I cannot tell ; but there are more remarkable inscriptions in that place than in ...
Alexander Chalmers. that parish have a particular genius for an epitaph , or that there be some poet among them who un- dertakes that work by the great , I cannot tell ; but there are more remarkable inscriptions in that place than in ...
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Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.