The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... given to reading and calm conversation should ever be visited by these roarers : but they think they themselves , as neighbours , may come into our rooms with the same right that they and their dogs hunt in our grounds . " Your ...
... given to reading and calm conversation should ever be visited by these roarers : but they think they themselves , as neighbours , may come into our rooms with the same right that they and their dogs hunt in our grounds . " Your ...
Side 5
... given over by my physicians , but should with much difficulty recover : that , the first time I took the air afterwards , I should be addressed to by a young gentleman of a plentiful fortune , good sense , and a generous spirit . MR ...
... given over by my physicians , but should with much difficulty recover : that , the first time I took the air afterwards , I should be addressed to by a young gentleman of a plentiful fortune , good sense , and a generous spirit . MR ...
Side 11
... given you , that my compositions in gardening are altogether after the Pindaric manner , and run into the beautiful wildness of nature , without affecting the nicer elegancies of art . What I am now going to mention will , perhaps ...
... given you , that my compositions in gardening are altogether after the Pindaric manner , and run into the beautiful wildness of nature , without affecting the nicer elegancies of art . What I am now going to mention will , perhaps ...
Side 18
... given very little entertainment to one less turned to reflection than I was : but it was a pleasing speculation to remark on the happiness of a life , in which things of no moment give occasion of hope , self satisfaction , and triumph ...
... given very little entertainment to one less turned to reflection than I was : but it was a pleasing speculation to remark on the happiness of a life , in which things of no moment give occasion of hope , self satisfaction , and triumph ...
Side 19
... given some account , and which relate to the character of the mighty Pharamond of France , and the close friendship be- tween him and his friend Eucrate , I found among the letters which had been in the custody of the latter an epistle ...
... given some account , and which relate to the character of the mighty Pharamond of France , and the close friendship be- tween him and his friend Eucrate , I found among the letters which had been in the custody of the latter an epistle ...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ... Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1855 |
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acquainted ADDISON admirer agreeable appear beauty body Britomartis called character Cicero cities of London consider conversation creature delight desire discourse divine drachmas dreams DRYDEN endeavour entertainment epigram eternity eyes fair lady fancy favour fortune freebench gentleman give greatest hand happiness hath hear heard heart honest HONEYCOMB honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar kind king lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage married matter mentioned mind nation nature never obliged observed occasion OVID pain paper particular passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present pretty reader reason Rechteren ROSCOMMON SEPTEMBER 13 Shalum soul speak SPECTATOR Tatler tell things thou thought tion Tirzah told town truth VIRG Virgil virtue whig whole wife woman words write young
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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.