The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings, Том 3H.D. Symonds, T. Hurst, J. Walker, J. Scatcherd, A. and J. Black and H. Parry, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, E. Lloyd, Otridge and Son, J Cuthell, Jordan Hookham, W. Miller, S. Bagster, R. Ryan, and R.H. Westley, 1794 |
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By these mean's it comes to pass , that the girls look upon their father as a clown ,
and the boys think their mother no better than she should be . How different are
the lives of Aristus and Aspasia ! The innocent vivacity of the one is tempered ...
By these mean's it comes to pass , that the girls look upon their father as a clown ,
and the boys think their mother no better than she should be . How different are
the lives of Aristus and Aspasia ! The innocent vivacity of the one is tempered ...
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The admirers of what we call point or turn , look upon it as the particular
happiness to which Cowley , Ovid , and others , owe their reputation , and
therefore endeavour to imitate them only in such instances . What is just , proper ,
and natural ...
The admirers of what we call point or turn , look upon it as the particular
happiness to which Cowley , Ovid , and others , owe their reputation , and
therefore endeavour to imitate them only in such instances . What is just , proper ,
and natural ...
Сторінка 242
Thus the civil and military lists look upon each other with much ill - nature ; the
soldier repines at the courtier's power , and the courtier rallies the soldier's
honour ; or , to come to lower instances , the private men in the horse and foot of
an army ...
Thus the civil and military lists look upon each other with much ill - nature ; the
soldier repines at the courtier's power , and the courtier rallies the soldier's
honour ; or , to come to lower instances , the private men in the horse and foot of
an army ...
Сторінка 299
I can look at disappointments and misfortunes , pain and sickness , death itself ,
and what is worse than death , the loss of those who are dearest to me , with
indifference , so long as I keep in view the the pleasures of eternity , and the state
...
I can look at disappointments and misfortunes , pain and sickness , death itself ,
and what is worse than death , the loss of those who are dearest to me , with
indifference , so long as I keep in view the the pleasures of eternity , and the state
...
Сторінка 404
Some learned men look upon this conclusion as a prediction of our Saviour , or at
least that Socrates , like the High - Priest , prophesied unknowingly , and pointed
at that Divine Teacher who was to come into the world some ages after him .
Some learned men look upon this conclusion as a prediction of our Saviour , or at
least that Socrates , like the High - Priest , prophesied unknowingly , and pointed
at that Divine Teacher who was to come into the world some ages after him .
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Сторінка 168 - I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Сторінка 169 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Сторінка 167 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Сторінка 165 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 168 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Сторінка 167 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me farther, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Сторінка 259 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Сторінка 166 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity.
Сторінка 184 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Сторінка 184 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.