Spectator (The)Isaac, Tuckey & Company, 1836 - 714 стор. |
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... side the dangers of that glorious day in which cuse . Candour and openness of heart , which shine in all your words and actions , exact the highest esteem from all who have the honour to know you ; and a winning condescension to all ...
... side the dangers of that glorious day in which cuse . Candour and openness of heart , which shine in all your words and actions , exact the highest esteem from all who have the honour to know you ; and a winning condescension to all ...
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... side the throne now healthful state of body , and wither into a skeleton . appeared to be only heaps of paper , or little piles of Her recoveries were often as sudden as her decays , notched sticks , bound up together in bundles , like ...
... side the throne now healthful state of body , and wither into a skeleton . appeared to be only heaps of paper , or little piles of Her recoveries were often as sudden as her decays , notched sticks , bound up together in bundles , like ...
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... side by side . What the absurdity was which I had committed I did not know , but I suppose there was some traditionary superstition in it ; and therefore , in obedience to the lady of the house , I disposed of my knife and fork in two ...
... side by side . What the absurdity was which I had committed I did not know , but I suppose there was some traditionary superstition in it ; and therefore , in obedience to the lady of the house , I disposed of my knife and fork in two ...
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... side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions , factions , and debates of mankind . When I read the several dates of the tombs ...
... side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions , factions , and debates of mankind . When I read the several dates of the tombs ...
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... side of the water , it is a jest at Haerlem to talk of a shape under eighteen stone . These wise traders regulate their beauties as they do their butter , by the pound ; and Miss Cross , when she first arrived in the Low Countries , was ...
... side of the water , it is a jest at Haerlem to talk of a shape under eighteen stone . These wise traders regulate their beauties as they do their butter , by the pound ; and Miss Cross , when she first arrived in the Low Countries , was ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.