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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... desire after knowledge , and a great sense of our present ignorance , may be thought a good presage and earnest of improvement , you may look upon your time you shall bestow in answering this request not thrown away to no purpose . And ...
... desire after knowledge , and a great sense of our present ignorance , may be thought a good presage and earnest of improvement , you may look upon your time you shall bestow in answering this request not thrown away to no purpose . And ...
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... desire me to let a fall on the ground , a stumble , or a good slap on the back , be reckoned a jest . * These gambols I shall tolerate for a season , because I hope the evil cannot continue longer than until the people of condition and ...
... desire me to let a fall on the ground , a stumble , or a good slap on the back , be reckoned a jest . * These gambols I shall tolerate for a season , because I hope the evil cannot continue longer than until the people of condition and ...
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... desire , or impertinent mirth , will take up our minds , without we can possess ourselves in that sobriety of heart which is above all pleasures , and can be felt much better than de- scribed . But the ready way , I believe , to the ...
... desire , or impertinent mirth , will take up our minds , without we can possess ourselves in that sobriety of heart which is above all pleasures , and can be felt much better than de- scribed . But the ready way , I believe , to the ...
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... desires the possessor of it to consider it as a mere gift of nature , and not any perfection of his own . A third calls it a short - lived tyranny , a fourth , a silent fraud , because it imposes upon us without the help of language ...
... desires the possessor of it to consider it as a mere gift of nature , and not any perfection of his own . A third calls it a short - lived tyranny , a fourth , a silent fraud , because it imposes upon us without the help of language ...
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... desire farther notice from my corre- spondents . MR . SPECTATOR , I AM obliged to you for your discourse the other day upon frivolous disputants , who with great warmth and enumeration of many circumstances and authorities , undertake ...
... desire farther notice from my corre- spondents . MR . SPECTATOR , I AM obliged to you for your discourse the other day upon frivolous disputants , who with great warmth and enumeration of many circumstances and authorities , undertake ...
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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.