The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... reason I look upon you as a person very well qualified for a dedication . I may possibly disappoint my readers , and yourself too , if I do not endeavour on this occasion to make the world acquainted with your virtues . And here , Sir ...
... reason I look upon you as a person very well qualified for a dedication . I may possibly disappoint my readers , and yourself too , if I do not endeavour on this occasion to make the world acquainted with your virtues . And here , Sir ...
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... reason of its rarity , that if I meet with any one in a field which pleases me , I give it a place in my garden . By this means , when a stranger walks with me , he is surprised to see several large spots of ground covered with ten ...
... reason of its rarity , that if I meet with any one in a field which pleases me , I give it a place in my garden . By this means , when a stranger walks with me , he is surprised to see several large spots of ground covered with ten ...
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... reason we are not so sensible of those beauties that at this time may be everywhere met with ; but when nature is in ... reasons , I hope you will pardon the length of my present letter . ADDISON . " I am , Sir , & c . " C. • No. 478 ...
... reason we are not so sensible of those beauties that at this time may be everywhere met with ; but when nature is in ... reasons , I hope you will pardon the length of my present letter . ADDISON . " I am , Sir , & c . " C. • No. 478 ...
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... reasons offered , by which we expected to gain the appro- bation of the public , were as follows.— 66 First , That ... reason to suspect that they only go abroad to make or improve a fancy for dress , a project of this nature may be a ...
... reasons offered , by which we expected to gain the appro- bation of the public , were as follows.— 66 First , That ... reason to suspect that they only go abroad to make or improve a fancy for dress , a project of this nature may be a ...
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... reason I cannot guess , unless it be that such a discourse is of general use , and every married man's money . An honest tradesman , who dates his letter from Cheapside , sends me thanks in the name of a club , who , he tells me , meet ...
... reason I cannot guess , unless it be that such a discourse is of general use , and every married man's money . An honest tradesman , who dates his letter from Cheapside , sends me thanks in the name of a club , who , he tells me , meet ...
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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.