The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... truth of it is , a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes . When she has made her own choice , for form's sake , she sends a congé d'élire to her friends . If we look into the secret springs and motives that ...
... truth of it is , a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes . When she has made her own choice , for form's sake , she sends a congé d'élire to her friends . If we look into the secret springs and motives that ...
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... truth is , we generally make love in a style , and with sentiments , very unfit for ordinary life they are half theatrical , half romantic . By this means we raise our imaginations to what is not to be expected in human life ; and ...
... truth is , we generally make love in a style , and with sentiments , very unfit for ordinary life they are half theatrical , half romantic . By this means we raise our imaginations to what is not to be expected in human life ; and ...
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... truth of it is , they have a certain flavour at their first appear- ance from several accidental circumstances of time , place , and person , which they may lose if they are not taken early ; but , in this case , every reader is to ...
... truth of it is , they have a certain flavour at their first appear- ance from several accidental circumstances of time , place , and person , which they may lose if they are not taken early ; but , in this case , every reader is to ...
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... truth , any satis- faction beyond the boundaries of reason is but a step towards mad- ness and folly . But is the sense of joy and accomplishment of desire no way to be indulged , or attained ? And have we appetites given us to be at ...
... truth , any satis- faction beyond the boundaries of reason is but a step towards mad- ness and folly . But is the sense of joy and accomplishment of desire no way to be indulged , or attained ? And have we appetites given us to be at ...
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... truth of which there is good authority . The mind of man is naturally a lover of justice ; and when we read a story wherein a criminal is overtaken , in whom there is no quality which is the object of pity , the soul enjoys a certain ...
... truth of which there is good authority . The mind of man is naturally a lover of justice ; and when we read a story wherein a criminal is overtaken , in whom there is no quality which is the object of pity , the soul enjoys a certain ...
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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.