The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings, Volum 3H.D. Symonds, T. Hurst, J. Walker, J. Scatcherd, A. and J. Black and H. Parry, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, E. Lloyd, Otridge and Son, J Cuthell, Jordan Hookham, W. Miller, S. Bagster, R. Ryan, and R.H. Westley, 1794 |
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Side 69
... creature in the world , lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known . Yet again he comforts himself . " Hang the jade her woman . If money can keep the slut trusty I will do it , though I mortgage every acre ...
... creature in the world , lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known . Yet again he comforts himself . " Hang the jade her woman . If money can keep the slut trusty I will do it , though I mortgage every acre ...
Side 70
... creatures live in the most extreme misery together ; the master knows not how to preserve respect , nor the servant how to give it . It seems this person is of so sullen a nature , that he knows but little satisfaction in the midst of a ...
... creatures live in the most extreme misery together ; the master knows not how to preserve respect , nor the servant how to give it . It seems this person is of so sullen a nature , that he knows but little satisfaction in the midst of a ...
Side 72
... creatures in the world , and she the unhappiest woman living , for she shall not be dressed in any time . Thus we stand not knowing what to do , when our good lady with all the patience in the world tells us as plain as she can speak ...
... creatures in the world , and she the unhappiest woman living , for she shall not be dressed in any time . Thus we stand not knowing what to do , when our good lady with all the patience in the world tells us as plain as she can speak ...
Side 95
... creature , palls in the possession , but I love also your mind : your soul is as dear to me as my own ; and if the advantages of a liberal education , some knowledge and as much contempt of the world , joined with the endeavours towards ...
... creature , palls in the possession , but I love also your mind : your soul is as dear to me as my own ; and if the advantages of a liberal education , some knowledge and as much contempt of the world , joined with the endeavours towards ...
Side 96
... creature , Your most obedient , Most devoted servant . " ' The two next were written after the day of our marriage was fixed . ' MADAM , September 25 , 1671 . " Ir is the hardest thing in the world to be in love , and yet attend ...
... creature , Your most obedient , Most devoted servant . " ' The two next were written after the day of our marriage was fixed . ' MADAM , September 25 , 1671 . " Ir is the hardest thing in the world to be in love , and yet attend ...
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acquaintance admired agreeable ALCIBIADES appear Astrop beauty behaviour believe Castilian character CONSTANTIA conversation creature daugh death delight discourse dress endeavour entertain EUDOXUS EUSTACE BUDGELL eyes father favour following letter fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy heart HEROD honour hope human humble servant humour husband impertinent innocent J. S. JORDAN kind lady learning live look lover man's mankind manner MARIAMNE marriage master ment mind mirth nature neral never obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID pain paper particular pass passion person PINDAR pleased pleasure pray present reader reason religion renegado Salamander sense shew Sir ROGER SOCRATES soul species SPECTATOR spirit tell temper THEODOSIUS thing THOMAS PARNELL THOMAS TICKELL thou thought tion told TOM SHORT town VIRG virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
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Side 168 - I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Side 169 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Side 167 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Side 165 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Side 168 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Side 167 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me farther, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Side 257 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Side 166 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity.
Side 184 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Side 184 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.