The Spectator, Volum 8Tonson, 1717 |
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Side 10
... took my Stand in the Center of it , and faw with a great deal of Pleasure the whole human Species marching one after another , and throw- ing down their feveral Loads , which immediately grew up into a prodigious Mountain that feemed to ...
... took my Stand in the Center of it , and faw with a great deal of Pleasure the whole human Species marching one after another , and throw- ing down their feveral Loads , which immediately grew up into a prodigious Mountain that feemed to ...
Side 11
... took Notice in particular of a very profligate Fel- low , who I did not queftion came loaden with his Crimes , but upon fearching into his Bundle , I found that inftead of throwing his Guilt from him , he had only laid down his Memory ...
... took Notice in particular of a very profligate Fel- low , who I did not queftion came loaden with his Crimes , but upon fearching into his Bundle , I found that inftead of throwing his Guilt from him , he had only laid down his Memory ...
Side 13
... took up the Gout in their stead , but made íuch wry Faces , that one might easily perceive he was no great Gainer by the Bargain . It was pleafant enough to fee the feve- ral Exchanges that were made , for Sickness against Poverty ...
... took up the Gout in their stead , but made íuch wry Faces , that one might easily perceive he was no great Gainer by the Bargain . It was pleafant enough to fee the feve- ral Exchanges that were made , for Sickness against Poverty ...
Side 21
... took his Death fo much to Heart , that it was thought it would have put an End to her Life , had fhe not diverted her Sorrows by re- ceiving the Addreffes of a Gentleman in the Neigh- ' bourhood , who made Love to her in the fecond ...
... took his Death fo much to Heart , that it was thought it would have put an End to her Life , had fhe not diverted her Sorrows by re- ceiving the Addreffes of a Gentleman in the Neigh- ' bourhood , who made Love to her in the fecond ...
Side 36
... took its Rife from thofe narrow Conceptions , which we are apt to en- tertain of the Divine Nature . We our felves cannot attend to many different Objects at the fame Time . If we are careful to inspect fome Things , we must of Course ...
... took its Rife from thofe narrow Conceptions , which we are apt to en- tertain of the Divine Nature . We our felves cannot attend to many different Objects at the fame Time . If we are careful to inspect fome Things , we must of Course ...
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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.