The Spectator, Volum 8Tonson, 1717 |
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own perfonalGenius and Application . You are formed for these Accomplishments by a happy Turn of Na- ture , and have finished your self in them by the utmostImprovements of Art . A Man that is de- fective in either of these ...
own perfonalGenius and Application . You are formed for these Accomplishments by a happy Turn of Na- ture , and have finished your self in them by the utmostImprovements of Art . A Man that is de- fective in either of these ...
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... Turn ; Some fancy me a great Enemy to the French King , though , in reality , I only make use of him for a Help to Difcourfe . In fhort , I wrangle and dif- pute for Exercise ; and have carried this Point so far , that I was once like ...
... Turn ; Some fancy me a great Enemy to the French King , though , in reality , I only make use of him for a Help to Difcourfe . In fhort , I wrangle and dif- pute for Exercise ; and have carried this Point so far , that I was once like ...
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... turn- ' ed Periods , that produced fuch difmal Effects in your Muscles , we will depofite them near an old Manufcript of Tully's Orations , among the Archives ⚫ of the Univerfity ; for we all agree with you , that there is not a more ...
... turn- ' ed Periods , that produced fuch difmal Effects in your Muscles , we will depofite them near an old Manufcript of Tully's Orations , among the Archives ⚫ of the Univerfity ; for we all agree with you , that there is not a more ...
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... turns upon their • former Husbands , and it is very diverting to hear them relate their several Arts and Stratagems , with which they amufed the Jealous , pacified the Chole- rick , or wheedled the Good - natured Man , ' till at laft ...
... turns upon their • former Husbands , and it is very diverting to hear them relate their several Arts and Stratagems , with which they amufed the Jealous , pacified the Chole- rick , or wheedled the Good - natured Man , ' till at laft ...
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... turn away all his old Friends and Servants , that he may have the dear Man to her felf . To make him dilinherit the un- dutiful Children of any former Wife . Never to be thoroughly conyinced of his Affection , ' till he has ' made over ...
... turn away all his old Friends and Servants , that he may have the dear Man to her felf . To make him dilinherit the un- dutiful Children of any former Wife . Never to be thoroughly conyinced of his Affection , ' till he has ' made over ...
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Side 267 - ... 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 265 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Side 140 - 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 74 - We make provisions for this life, as though it were never to have an end, and for the other life, as though it were never to have a beginning. Should a spirit of superior rank, who is a stranger to human nature, accidentally alight upon the earth, and take a survey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us...
Side 57 - ... him. He knows that his helper is at hand, and is always nearer to him than any thing else can be, which is capable of annoying or terrifying him.
Side 12 - 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.
Side 57 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
Side 139 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Side 13 - ... angry father. The graceless youth, in less than a quarter. of an hour, pulled the old gentleman by the beard, and had...
Side 70 - He further added, that a single Ray of it dissipates Pain, and Care, and Melancholy from the Person on whom it falls. In short, says he, its Presence naturally changes every Place into a kind of Heaven.