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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... means amuses and diverts her with his songs during the whole time of her sitting . This contract among birds lasts no longer than till a brood of young ones arises from it ; so that in the feathered kind , the cares and fatigues of the ...
... means amuses and diverts her with his songs during the whole time of her sitting . This contract among birds lasts no longer than till a brood of young ones arises from it ; so that in the feathered kind , the cares and fatigues of the ...
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... means contributes all she can to perpetuate herself in a worthless progeny . The younger FAUSTINA was a lively instance of this sort of women . Notwithstanding she was married to MARCUS AURELIUS , one of the greatest , wisest , and best ...
... means contributes all she can to perpetuate herself in a worthless progeny . The younger FAUSTINA was a lively instance of this sort of women . Notwithstanding she was married to MARCUS AURELIUS , one of the greatest , wisest , and best ...
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... means 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 ...
... means 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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... means or other straggled into those parts , and that all the women of fashion were cutting their old muffs in two , or retrenching them , according to the little model which was got among them . I cannot believe the re- port they have ...
... means or other straggled into those parts , and that all the women of fashion were cutting their old muffs in two , or retrenching them , according to the little model which was got among them . I cannot believe the re- port they have ...
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... mean time the lady of the manor filled the area of the church , and walked up to her pew with an unspeakable satisfaction , amidst the whispers , conjec- tures , and astonishments of the whole congregation . ' Upon our way from hence we ...
... mean time the lady of the manor filled the area of the church , and walked up to her pew with an unspeakable satisfaction , amidst the whispers , conjec- tures , and astonishments of the whole congregation . ' Upon our way from hence we ...
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acquaintance admired agreeable ALCIBIADES appear Astrop beauty behaviour believe Castilian character CONSTANTIA conversation creature daugh death delight discourse dress endeavour entertain EUDOXUS EUSTACE BUDGELL eyes father favour following letter fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy heart HEROD honour hope human humble servant humour husband impertinent innocent J. S. JORDAN kind lady learning live look lover man's mankind manner MARIAMNE marriage master ment mind mirth nature neral never obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID pain paper particular pass passion person PINDAR pleased pleasure pray present reader reason religion renegado Salamander sense shew Sir ROGER SOCRATES soul species SPECTATOR spirit tell temper THEODOSIUS thing THOMAS PARNELL THOMAS TICKELL thou thought tion told TOM SHORT town VIRG virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
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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.