Spectator (The)Isaac, Tuckey & Company, 1836 - 714 páginas |
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... short , we hear from all hands that you are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own estate . After having spoken thus much of my patron , I must take the privilege of an author in ...
... short , we hear from all hands that you are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own estate . After having spoken thus much of my patron , I must take the privilege of an author in ...
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... short account of myself , I must let you know , that the design of this paper is to give you information of a certain irregular assembly , which I think falls very properly under your observation , especially since the persons it is ...
... short account of myself , I must let you know , that the design of this paper is to give you information of a certain irregular assembly , which I think falls very properly under your observation , especially since the persons it is ...
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... short allowance of thunder and lightning ; though I cannot in this place omit doing justice to the boy who had the direction of the two painted dragons , and made them spit fire and smoke . He flashed out his rosin in such just ...
... short allowance of thunder and lightning ; though I cannot in this place omit doing justice to the boy who had the direction of the two painted dragons , and made them spit fire and smoke . He flashed out his rosin in such just ...
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... short of it about a pound after a day's fast , and exceeding it as much after a very full meal ; so that it is my continual employment to trim the ba- lance between these two volatile pounds in my con- stitution . In my ordinary meals I ...
... short of it about a pound after a day's fast , and exceeding it as much after a very full meal ; so that it is my continual employment to trim the ba- lance between these two volatile pounds in my con- stitution . In my ordinary meals I ...
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... short epitaph written by Ben Jonson with a spirit which nothing could inspire but such an object as I have been describing : R. Underneath this stone doth lie As much virtue as could die ; Which when alive did vigour give To as much ...
... short epitaph written by Ben Jonson with a spirit which nothing could inspire but such an object as I have been describing : R. Underneath this stone doth lie As much virtue as could die ; Which when alive did vigour give To as much ...
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Página 287 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 203 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 129 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Página 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 345 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 6 - He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Página 181 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Página 181 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Página 7 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily.
Página 6 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.