The Spectator, Volum 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Side 19
... received under the character . of Spectator ; I have complaints from lovers , schemes from projectors , scandal from ladies , con- gratulations , compliments , and advice in abundance . I have not been thus long an author , to be ...
... received under the character . of Spectator ; I have complaints from lovers , schemes from projectors , scandal from ladies , con- gratulations , compliments , and advice in abundance . I have not been thus long an author , to be ...
Side 21
... received . Arethusa and her friend may hear farther from me . Celia is a little too hasty . Harriot is a good girl ; but must not courtesy to folks she does not know . I must ingenuously confess my friend Sampson Bentstaff has quite ...
... received . Arethusa and her friend may hear farther from me . Celia is a little too hasty . Harriot is a good girl ; but must not courtesy to folks she does not know . I must ingenuously confess my friend Sampson Bentstaff has quite ...
Side 31
... received the addresses of several who made love to her . Among these were two brothers , Harpath and Shalum : Harpath " being the first - born , was master of that fruitful re- gion which lies at the foot of mount Tirzah , in the ...
... received the addresses of several who made love to her . Among these were two brothers , Harpath and Shalum : Harpath " being the first - born , was master of that fruitful re- gion which lies at the foot of mount Tirzah , in the ...
Side 37
... received new overtures , and at the same time a most splendid visit from Mishpach , who was a mighty man of old , and had built a great city , which he called after his own name . Every house was made for at least a thousand years , nay ...
... received new overtures , and at the same time a most splendid visit from Mishpach , who was a mighty man of old , and had built a great city , which he called after his own name . Every house was made for at least a thousand years , nay ...
Side 39
... received the following letter , which is built upon a thought that is new , and very well carried on : for which reasons I shall give it to the public without alteration , addition or amendment . “ SIR , " It was a good piece of advice ...
... received the following letter , which is built upon a thought that is new , and very well carried on : for which reasons I shall give it to the public without alteration , addition or amendment . “ SIR , " It was a good piece of advice ...
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
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Side 215 - 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.
Side 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Side 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Side 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Side 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Side 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Side 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Side 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Side 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.