The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... action , and the good offices done the van- quished in the name of the queen of England , gave both the con- queror and the captive the most lively examples of the courage and generosity of the nation he represented . Your friends and ...
... action , and the good offices done the van- quished in the name of the queen of England , gave both the con- queror and the captive the most lively examples of the courage and generosity of the nation he represented . Your friends and ...
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... action , and the good offices done the van- quished in the name of the queen of England , gave both the con- queror and the captive the most lively examples of the courage and generosity of the nation he represented . Your friends and ...
... action , and the good offices done the van- quished in the name of the queen of England , gave both the con- queror and the captive the most lively examples of the courage and generosity of the nation he represented . Your friends and ...
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... actions only as his heart is naturally set upon . The privy counsellor of one in love must ob- serve the same conduct , unless he would forfeit the friendship of the person who desires his advice . I have known several odd cases of this ...
... actions only as his heart is naturally set upon . The privy counsellor of one in love must ob- serve the same conduct , unless he would forfeit the friendship of the person who desires his advice . I have known several odd cases of this ...
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... actions . When it is used to help the afflicted , to rescue the innocent . to comfort the stranger ? Uncommon methods , apparently undertaken to attain worthy ends , would never make power invidious . You see , Sir , I talk to you with ...
... actions . When it is used to help the afflicted , to rescue the innocent . to comfort the stranger ? Uncommon methods , apparently undertaken to attain worthy ends , would never make power invidious . You see , Sir , I talk to you with ...
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... actions . As the finest wines have often the taste of the soil , so even the most religious thoughts often draw something that is particular , from the constitution of the mind in which they arise . When folly or superstition strike in ...
... actions . As the finest wines have often the taste of the soil , so even the most religious thoughts often draw something that is particular , from the constitution of the mind in which they arise . When folly or superstition strike in ...
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acquainted ADDISON admirer agreeable appear beauty body Britomartis called character Cicero cities of London consider conversation creature delight desire discourse divine drachmas dreams DRYDEN endeavour entertainment epigram eternity eyes fair lady fancy favour fortune freebench gentleman give greatest hand happiness hath hear heard heart honest HONEYCOMB honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar kind king lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage married matter mentioned mind nation nature never obliged observed occasion OVID pain paper particular passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present pretty reader reason Rechteren ROSCOMMON SEPTEMBER 13 Shalum soul speak SPECTATOR Tatler tell things thou thought tion Tirzah told town truth VIRG Virgil virtue whig whole wife woman words write young
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 294 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Página 36 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Página 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.