The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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Side 40
... excellent author above mentioned has hinted , is in a very particular manner heightened and inflamed , when it rises in the soul at a time that the body is thus laid at rest . Every man's experience will inform him in this matter ...
... excellent author above mentioned has hinted , is in a very particular manner heightened and inflamed , when it rises in the soul at a time that the body is thus laid at rest . Every man's experience will inform him in this matter ...
Side 60
... excellent persons , who are weighed down by this habitual sorrow of heart , they rather deserve our compassion than our reproaches . I think , however , they would do well to consider whether such a behaviour does not deter men from a ...
... excellent persons , who are weighed down by this habitual sorrow of heart , they rather deserve our compassion than our reproaches . I think , however , they would do well to consider whether such a behaviour does not deter men from a ...
Side 66
... excellent manner of getting rid of such whom he observed were “ good at a halt , " at his phrase was . Under this description he comprehended all those who were contented to live without reproach , and had no promptitude in their minds ...
... excellent manner of getting rid of such whom he observed were “ good at a halt , " at his phrase was . Under this description he comprehended all those who were contented to live without reproach , and had no promptitude in their minds ...
Side 67
... excellent taste of letters , of all things affected fools , buffoons , humourists , and coxcombs . Whether it were from vanity , and that he enjoyed no talents in other men but what were inferior to him , or whatever it was , he carried ...
... excellent taste of letters , of all things affected fools , buffoons , humourists , and coxcombs . Whether it were from vanity , and that he enjoyed no talents in other men but what were inferior to him , or whatever it was , he carried ...
Side 71
... excellent watermen who are bred to the law , and far outdo the land students above mentioned . " STEELE . T. No. 499. THURSDAY , OCTOBER 2 , 1712 . Nimis uncis Naribus indulges PERS . SAT . I. 40 . You drive the jest too far . DRYDEN ...
... excellent watermen who are bred to the law , and far outdo the land students above mentioned . " STEELE . T. No. 499. THURSDAY , OCTOBER 2 , 1712 . Nimis uncis Naribus indulges PERS . SAT . I. 40 . You drive the jest too far . DRYDEN ...
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Side 189 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 426 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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.
Side 36 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Side 296 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Side 114 - WE last night received a piece of ill news at our club, which very sensibly afflicted every one of us. I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it. To keep them no longer in suspense, Sir Roger de Coverley is dead. He departed this life at his house in the country, after a few weeks
Side 427 - ... 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 189 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Side 294 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Side 36 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Side 304 - 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.