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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... give me some occa- sion of coming out with one lie , or other , that has nei- ther wit , humour , prospect of interest , or any other motive that I can think of in nature . The other day , when one was commending an eminent and learned ...
... give me some occa- sion of coming out with one lie , or other , that has nei- ther wit , humour , prospect of interest , or any other motive that I can think of in nature . The other day , when one was commending an eminent and learned ...
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... give you particulars of this kind ; but I can assure you , Mr. SPECTATOR , there are about twenty or thirty of us in this town ; I mean by this town the cities of London and Westminster ; I say there are in town a sufficient number of ...
... give you particulars of this kind ; but I can assure you , Mr. SPECTATOR , there are about twenty or thirty of us in this town ; I mean by this town the cities of London and Westminster ; I say there are in town a sufficient number of ...
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... Give him the least , occasion , and he will tell you something so very parti- cular that happened in such a year , and in such com- pany , where by the bye was present such a one , who was afterwards made such a thing . Out of all these ...
... Give him the least , occasion , and he will tell you something so very parti- cular that happened in such a year , and in such com- pany , where by the bye was present such a one , who was afterwards made such a thing . Out of all these ...
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... Give me leave to tell you of one more who is a lover ; he is the most afflicted creature in the world , lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known . Yet again he comforts himself . " Hang the jade her woman ...
... Give me leave to tell you of one more who is a lover ; he is the most afflicted creature in the world , lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known . Yet again he comforts himself . " Hang the jade her woman ...
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... give out in your paper , that nothing can be done without allowing time for it , and that one cannot be back again with what one was sent for , if one is called back before one can go a step for that they want . And if you please , let ...
... give out in your paper , that nothing can be done without allowing time for it , and that one cannot be back again with what one was sent for , if one is called back before one can go a step for that they want . And if you please , let ...
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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.