The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., المجلدات 11-121853 |
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... give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laudable for such perfec- tions as extend no farther than to his own private advantage and reputation . But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the happiness of ...
... give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laudable for such perfec- tions as extend no farther than to his own private advantage and reputation . But when I speak of you , I celebrate one who has had the happiness of ...
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... give the flowers to blow Aloft ; immortal reigns that plant unknown , With borrowed life , and vigour not his own . ' ' TO THE SPECTATOR - GENERAL . Mr. John Sly humbly showeth , 6 That upon reading the deputation given to the said Mr ...
... give the flowers to blow Aloft ; immortal reigns that plant unknown , With borrowed life , and vigour not his own . ' ' TO THE SPECTATOR - GENERAL . Mr. John Sly humbly showeth , 6 That upon reading the deputation given to the said Mr ...
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... give a little life to their sagacity : his military hats glare full in the face ; and he has prepared a familiar easy cock for all good companions between the abovementioned extremes . For this end he has consulted the most learned of ...
... give a little life to their sagacity : his military hats glare full in the face ; and he has prepared a familiar easy cock for all good companions between the abovementioned extremes . For this end he has consulted the most learned of ...
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... give me the choice of four . " Jack , " be- " " Is gins my father , " Mrs. Catharine is a fine wo- man . " Yes , sir , but she is rather too old : ” . " She will make the more discreet manager , boy . " Then my mother plays her part ...
... give me the choice of four . " Jack , " be- " " Is gins my father , " Mrs. Catharine is a fine wo- man . " Yes , sir , but she is rather too old : ” . " She will make the more discreet manager , boy . " Then my mother plays her part ...
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... give me leave to call Miranda ) now for these three years . I have often urged the matter home to my parents with all the submission of a son , but the impatience of a lover . Pray , sir , think of three years : what inexpressible ...
... give me leave to call Miranda ) now for these three years . I have often urged the matter home to my parents with all the submission of a son , but the impatience of a lover . Pray , sir , think of three years : what inexpressible ...
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الصفحة 203 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 54 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
الصفحة 11 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 52 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
الصفحة 184 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 216 - On the contrary, foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost than what they possess ; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than themselves, rather than on those who are under greater difficulties. All the real pleasures and...
الصفحة 46 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal NOW does always last.
الصفحة 247 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
الصفحة 172 - In proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, until the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
الصفحة 142 - What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ?" was the result of a laudable ambition.