The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volum 8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Side 17
... humour in which they are conveyed to me . 6 SIR , I AM often in a private assembly of wits of both sexes , where we generally descant upon your speculations , or upon the subjects on which you have treated . We were last Tuesday talking ...
... humour in which they are conveyed to me . 6 SIR , I AM often in a private assembly of wits of both sexes , where we generally descant upon your speculations , or upon the subjects on which you have treated . We were last Tuesday talking ...
Side 35
... humour is easy and gay , resembling Anacreon in its air , raised by such images , and pointed with such a turn as he might have used . I give it a place here , be- cause the author may have designed it for his honour D 2 551 . 35 ...
... humour is easy and gay , resembling Anacreon in its air , raised by such images , and pointed with such a turn as he might have used . I give it a place here , be- cause the author may have designed it for his honour D 2 551 . 35 ...
Side 37
... we keep to them justly . I shall end this with transcribing that excellent epitaph of Mr. Cowley , wherein , with a kind of grave and philosophic humour , he very beautifully speaks of himself ( with- 551 . 37 SPECTATOR .
... we keep to them justly . I shall end this with transcribing that excellent epitaph of Mr. Cowley , wherein , with a kind of grave and philosophic humour , he very beautifully speaks of himself ( with- 551 . 37 SPECTATOR .
Side 38
Corrected from the Originals. humour , he very beautifully speaks of himself ( with- drawn from the world , and dead to all the interests of it ) as of a man really deceased . At the same time it is an instruction how to leave the public ...
Corrected from the Originals. humour , he very beautifully speaks of himself ( with- drawn from the world , and dead to all the interests of it ) as of a man really deceased . At the same time it is an instruction how to leave the public ...
Side 49
... humour until you leave off . But I am led unawares into reflections foreign to the original design of this epistle ; which was to let you know , that some un- feigned admirers of inimitable your could , without any flattery , greet you ...
... humour until you leave off . But I am led unawares into reflections foreign to the original design of this epistle ; which was to let you know , that some un- feigned admirers of inimitable your could , without any flattery , greet you ...
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acquainted admirer agreeable Anacreon appear battle of Blenheim beautiful body character Cicero club consider creature delight desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fancy favour Flamstead fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour human humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar JUNE 23 kind king lady lately letter lived lives single look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Menander Middle Temple mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person philosopher pleased pleasure poet praise present quæ reader reason received ROSCOMMON says Shalum soul speak spect Spectator tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whig whole widow words writing young
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Side 367 - Plato, thou reasonest 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 215 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
Side 106 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Side 182 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Side 350 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Side 269 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...
Side 75 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, •who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garment hovered in the wind.
Side 173 - 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.
Side 183 - ... the fleets of England. I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature, he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old Fellow of a college, who, when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish : " We are always doing," says he, " something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Side 80 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.