The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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الصفحة 13
... consider how far the vanity of mankind has laid itself out in dress , what a prodigious number of people it maintains , and what a circulation of money it occasions . Provi- dence in this case makes use of the folly which we will not ...
... consider how far the vanity of mankind has laid itself out in dress , what a prodigious number of people it maintains , and what a circulation of money it occasions . Provi- dence in this case makes use of the folly which we will not ...
الصفحة 17
... considering things in their right light , and as nature has formed them , and not as our own fancies and appetites would have them . He then who took a young lady to his bed , with no other consideration than the expectation of scenes ...
... considering things in their right light , and as nature has formed them , and not as our own fancies and appetites would have them . He then who took a young lady to his bed , with no other consideration than the expectation of scenes ...
الصفحة 20
... consider it only as a machine I am obliged to take care of , in order to enjoy my soul in its faculties with alacrity ; well remembering , that this habitation of clay will in a few years be a meaner piece of earth than any utensil ...
... consider it only as a machine I am obliged to take care of , in order to enjoy my soul in its faculties with alacrity ; well remembering , that this habitation of clay will in a few years be a meaner piece of earth than any utensil ...
الصفحة 22
... consider the different notions which different persons have of the same thing . If men of low condition very often set a value on things which are not prized by those who are in a higher station of life , there are many things these ...
... consider the different notions which different persons have of the same thing . If men of low condition very often set a value on things which are not prized by those who are in a higher station of life , there are many things these ...
الصفحة 25
... consider her only as one who lives in his house to teach him philosophy . Tom Dapperwit says , that he agrees with me in that whole discourse , excepting only the last sentence , where I affirm the married state to be either a heaven or ...
... consider her only as one who lives in his house to teach him philosophy . Tom Dapperwit says , that he agrees with me in that whole discourse , excepting only the last sentence , where I affirm the married state to be either a heaven or ...
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الصفحة 199 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
الصفحة 436 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
الصفحة 437 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 313 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
الصفحة 199 - To be, or not to be ! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.
الصفحة 198 - 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 256 - The heap was at last distributed among the two sexes, who made a most piteous sight, as they wandered up and down under the pressure of their several burdens. The whole plain was filled with murmurs and complaints, groans, and lamentations.
الصفحة 44 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
الصفحة 125 - ... and you know he used to take great delight in it. From that time forward he grew worse and worse, but still kept a good heart to the last. Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery, upon a kind message that was sent him...
الصفحة 314 - 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.