The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... called forth , the following is perhaps the most judicious and comprehensive : " While the circle of mental cultivation was thus rapidly widening in France , a similar progress was taking place , upon a larger scale , and under still ...
... called forth , the following is perhaps the most judicious and comprehensive : " While the circle of mental cultivation was thus rapidly widening in France , a similar progress was taking place , upon a larger scale , and under still ...
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... called one work , by the re- ference they all have to the same common design . This design , too , was so well digested from the first , that nothing oc- curs afterwards ( when the characters come out and shew themselves at full * Mr ...
... called one work , by the re- ference they all have to the same common design . This design , too , was so well digested from the first , that nothing oc- curs afterwards ( when the characters come out and shew themselves at full * Mr ...
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... called the town , well , and had a considerable fund of wit and humour ; but his wit was often forced , and his humour ungraceful ; not but his style would give this appearance to each , being at once incorrect and heavy . His graver ...
... called the town , well , and had a considerable fund of wit and humour ; but his wit was often forced , and his humour ungraceful ; not but his style would give this appearance to each , being at once incorrect and heavy . His graver ...
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... called in at St. Jamess , where I found the whole outward room in a buzz of politics . The speculations were but very indifferent towards the door , but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the room , and were so very much ...
... called in at St. Jamess , where I found the whole outward room in a buzz of politics . The speculations were but very indifferent towards the door , but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the room , and were so very much ...
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... Quarter Session on his expositions of " a passage in the Game Act . " Sir John was a barrister , and besides having been Recorder of the * Nash's Worcestershire . which is called after him . ' All who know 10 [ No. 2 . SPECTATOR .
... Quarter Session on his expositions of " a passage in the Game Act . " Sir John was a barrister , and besides having been Recorder of the * Nash's Worcestershire . which is called after him . ' All who know 10 [ No. 2 . SPECTATOR .
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Сторінка 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Сторінка 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Сторінка 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Сторінка 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Сторінка 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.