The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Volum 11808 |
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Side 23
... produce such infinite swarms of insects for the support and sustenance of their respective broods ? 7 Is it not wonderful , that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts , and that FOR THEIR YOUNG , & c . 23.
... produce such infinite swarms of insects for the support and sustenance of their respective broods ? 7 Is it not wonderful , that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts , and that FOR THEIR YOUNG , & c . 23.
Side 33
... wonderfully unlucky , insomuch that he will bite the hand that feeds him , and endeavour to ridicule both friends and foes indifferently . For , hav . ing but small talents , he must be merry where he can , not where he should ...
... wonderfully unlucky , insomuch that he will bite the hand that feeds him , and endeavour to ridicule both friends and foes indifferently . For , hav . ing but small talents , he must be merry where he can , not where he should ...
Side 46
... wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man . Nay , it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself , to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes , and drawing nearer to him , by greater degrees of ...
... wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man . Nay , it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself , to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes , and drawing nearer to him , by greater degrees of ...
Side 78
... wonderful and unaccountable composition in the whole creation . He hath capacities to lodge a much greater variety of knowledge than he will be ever master of , and an unsatisfied curiosity to tread the secret paths of nature and ...
... wonderful and unaccountable composition in the whole creation . He hath capacities to lodge a much greater variety of knowledge than he will be ever master of , and an unsatisfied curiosity to tread the secret paths of nature and ...
Side 95
... wonderfully struck with the sight of every thing that is new and uncommon . I have since their depar- ture employed a friend to make many inquiries of " The Spectator is written by Steele , with Addi son's help ; it is often very pretty ...
... wonderfully struck with the sight of every thing that is new and uncommon . I have since their depar- ture employed a friend to make many inquiries of " The Spectator is written by Steele , with Addi son's help ; it is often very pretty ...
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Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
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Side 42 - 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 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Side 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Side 118 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Side 176 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Side 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Side 42 - 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...
Side 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Side 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Side 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.