The Spectator, Volum 8J. Tonson, 1729 |
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Side 24
... believe the very Chin was , modeftly fpeaking , as long as my whole Face . We had both of us an Opportunity of mending our felves , and all the Contributions being now brought in , every Man was at Liberty to exchange his Misfortune for ...
... believe the very Chin was , modeftly fpeaking , as long as my whole Face . We had both of us an Opportunity of mending our felves , and all the Contributions being now brought in , every Man was at Liberty to exchange his Misfortune for ...
Side 38
... believe never writ to any Body before . SIR , I Am defcended from the Ancient Family of the Blanks , a Name well known among all Men of Bufinefs . It is always read in thofe little white Spaces of Wri- ting which want to be filled up ...
... believe never writ to any Body before . SIR , I Am defcended from the Ancient Family of the Blanks , a Name well known among all Men of Bufinefs . It is always read in thofe little white Spaces of Wri- ting which want to be filled up ...
Side 45
... believe very of ten perplexes and disturbs Men of ferious and contem- plative Natures . David himself fell into it in that Re flection , When I confider the Heavens the Work of thy Fingers , the Moon and the Stars which thou haft ordain ...
... believe very of ten perplexes and disturbs Men of ferious and contem- plative Natures . David himself fell into it in that Re flection , When I confider the Heavens the Work of thy Fingers , the Moon and the Stars which thou haft ordain ...
Side 51
... believe there is not a jufter Obfervation in Monfieur Rochefoucault , than that A Man who has been bred up wholly to Bu- finefs , can never get t tthe Air of a Courtier at Court , but • will immediately catch it in the Camp . The Reafon ...
... believe there is not a jufter Obfervation in Monfieur Rochefoucault , than that A Man who has been bred up wholly to Bu- finefs , can never get t tthe Air of a Courtier at Court , but • will immediately catch it in the Camp . The Reafon ...
Side 57
... believe it will hardly ferve his Turn . Who can endure to see the great Officers of State , the B -- y's and T - t's treated af- ter fo fcurrilous a Manner ? I can't for my Life , fays I , imagine who they are the SPECTATOR means ? No ...
... believe it will hardly ferve his Turn . Who can endure to see the great Officers of State , the B -- y's and T - t's treated af- ter fo fcurrilous a Manner ? I can't for my Life , fays I , imagine who they are the SPECTATOR means ? No ...
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Side 271 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Side 269 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Side 23 - 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 269 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Side 23 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
Side 146 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Side 146 - I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular, and purposely receded from an established rule of the drama, when it has made way for a much higher beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been. Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and...
Side 45 - ... that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded and disposed among softer lights than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
Side 47 - ... capacities, as they are creatures, that is, beings of finite and limited natures. The presence of every created being is confined to a certain measure of space ; and consequently his observation is stinted to a certain number of objects.
Side 22 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities, and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.