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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... occasion for belief or confidence among us . If you think fit , we might be called the Histo- rians , for liar is become a very harsh word . And that a member of the society may not hereafter be ill received by the rest of the world , I ...
... occasion for belief or confidence among us . If you think fit , we might be called the Histo- rians , for liar is become a very harsh word . And that a member of the society may not hereafter be ill received by the rest of the world , I ...
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... occasion , wherein they may in themselves be supposed to be unfit to attend . their master's concerns by reason of any attention to their own , he is so good as to place himself in their con- dition . I thought it very becoming in him ...
... occasion , wherein they may in themselves be supposed to be unfit to attend . their master's concerns by reason of any attention to their own , he is so good as to place himself in their con- dition . I thought it very becoming in him ...
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... occasion he produces the example of THE MISTOCLES , PERICULES , CYRUS , and ALEXANDER himself , whom he denies to have been ca pable of effecting what they did , except they had been followed by others . It is pleasant enough to see ...
... occasion he produces the example of THE MISTOCLES , PERICULES , CYRUS , and ALEXANDER himself , whom he denies to have been ca pable of effecting what they did , except they had been followed by others . It is pleasant enough to see ...
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... occasion that he was pleased to take , said , he remembered a very pretty repartee made by a very witty man in King CHARLES's time upon the like occasion . " I remember ( said he , upon entering into the tale ) much about the time of ...
... occasion that he was pleased to take , said , he remembered a very pretty repartee made by a very witty man in King CHARLES's time upon the like occasion . " I remember ( said he , upon entering into the tale ) much about the time of ...
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... occasion for requesting it of you ; but to my very great concern , I found on the perusal of that Spectator , I was intirely disappointed , and am as much at a loss how to make use use of my time for that end as ever . 86 NO . 140 . THE ...
... occasion for requesting it of you ; but to my very great concern , I found on the perusal of that Spectator , I was intirely disappointed , and am as much at a loss how to make use use of my time for that end as ever . 86 NO . 140 . THE ...
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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.