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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Сторінка 187
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment ; if we aim at any thing "
higher , we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment . A man should
direct all his studies and endeavours at making himself easy now , and happy ...
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment ; if we aim at any thing "
higher , we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment . A man should
direct all his studies and endeavours at making himself easy now , and happy ...
Сторінка 266
... reader who takes up my paper in order to be diverted , very often finds himself
engaged unawares in a serious and profitable course of thinking ; as on the
contrary , the thoughtful The very thoughtful man , who perhaps may hope to 266
No.
... reader who takes up my paper in order to be diverted , very often finds himself
engaged unawares in a serious and profitable course of thinking ; as on the
contrary , the thoughtful The very thoughtful man , who perhaps may hope to 266
No.
Сторінка 303
The Coquette is indeed one degree towards the Jilt ; but the heart of the former is
bent upon admiring herself , and giving false hopes to her lovers ; but the latter is
not contented to be extremely amiable , but she must add to that advantage a ...
The Coquette is indeed one degree towards the Jilt ; but the heart of the former is
bent upon admiring herself , and giving false hopes to her lovers ; but the latter is
not contented to be extremely amiable , but she must add to that advantage a ...
Сторінка 327
I do not know any man who has a juster relish of life than the person I am
speaking of , or keeps a better guard against the terrors of want , or the hopes of
gain . It is usual in a crowd of children , for the parent to name out of his own flock
all the ...
I do not know any man who has a juster relish of life than the person I am
speaking of , or keeps a better guard against the terrors of want , or the hopes of
gain . It is usual in a crowd of children , for the parent to name out of his own flock
all the ...
Сторінка 361
... of fortune , out of all hopes of being addressed to by those whom we love .
Under all these disadvantages I am obliged to apply myself to you , and hope I
shall prevail with you to print in your very next paper the following letter , which is
...
... of fortune , out of all hopes of being addressed to by those whom we love .
Under all these disadvantages I am obliged to apply myself to you , and hope I
shall prevail with you to print in your very next paper the following letter , which is
...
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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.
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| Назва | 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 3 |
| Постачальники | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Robert Bisset |
| Видавець | H.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 |
| Оригінал із | Нью-Йоркська публічна бібліотека |
| Оцифровано | 21 лис. 2007 |
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