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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... sure of his conduct , when the verdict which he passes upon . own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him . his My worthy friend Sir ROGER is one of those who is not only at peace within himself ...
... sure of his conduct , when the verdict which he passes upon . own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him . his My worthy friend Sir ROGER is one of those who is not only at peace within himself ...
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... sure that I was not a Fanatic . It gives me a serious concern to see such a spirit of dissension in the country ; not only as it destroys vir- tue and common sense , and renders us in a manner bar- barians towards one another , but as ...
... sure that I was not a Fanatic . It gives me a serious concern to see such a spirit of dissension in the country ; not only as it destroys vir- tue and common sense , and renders us in a manner bar- barians towards one another , but as ...
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... sure to point right once in twelve hours . In this case therefore I would advise them , as a gentleman did his friend who was hunting about the whole town after a rambling fellow . If you follow him you will never find him , but if you ...
... sure to point right once in twelve hours . In this case therefore I would advise them , as a gentleman did his friend who was hunting about the whole town after a rambling fellow . If you follow him you will never find him , but if you ...
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... sure to have it : if a hog loses his way in the fields , it is ten to one but he becomes their prey : our geese cannot live in peace for them ; if a man prose- cutes them with severity , his hen - roost is sure to pay for it . They ...
... sure to have it : if a hog loses his way in the fields , it is ten to one but he becomes their prey : our geese cannot live in peace for them ; if a man prose- cutes them with severity , his hen - roost is sure to pay for it . They ...
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... sure of find- ing diversion , when the worst comes to the worst . By these means the breed about his house has time to in- crease and multiply , besides that the sport is the more agreeable where the game is the harder to come at , and ...
... sure of find- ing diversion , when the worst comes to the worst . By these means the breed about his house has time to in- crease and multiply , besides that the sport is the more agreeable where the game is the harder to come at , and ...
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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 257 - 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.