The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... heads to visit me , I should look upon these persons in the same degree enemies to my particu- lar state of happiness , as ever the French were to that of the public , and I would be at an annual expense in spies to observe their ...
... heads to visit me , I should look upon these persons in the same degree enemies to my particu- lar state of happiness , as ever the French were to that of the public , and I would be at an annual expense in spies to observe their ...
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... be disposed under the proper heads . Seneca and Montaigne are patterns for writing in this last kind , as Tully and Aristotle excel in the other . When I read an author of genius who writes without method , No. 476. ] THE SPECTATOR .
... be disposed under the proper heads . Seneca and Montaigne are patterns for writing in this last kind , as Tully and Aristotle excel in the other . When I read an author of genius who writes without method , No. 476. ] THE SPECTATOR .
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... head , that do not offer them- selves upon the general survey of a subject . His thoughts are at the same time more intelligible , and better discover their drift and meaning , when they are placed in their proper lights , and follow ...
... head , that do not offer them- selves upon the general survey of a subject . His thoughts are at the same time more intelligible , and better discover their drift and meaning , when they are placed in their proper lights , and follow ...
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... head , but few words , and gains the same advantage over Puzzle , that a small body of regular troops would gain over a numberless undisciplined militia . ADDISON . C. 66 No. 477. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 6 , 1712 . SIR , An me ludit ...
... head , but few words , and gains the same advantage over Puzzle , that a small body of regular troops would gain over a numberless undisciplined militia . ADDISON . C. 66 No. 477. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 6 , 1712 . SIR , An me ludit ...
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... head , and led me into a set of amusing thoughts concerning them . " I fancied it must be very surprising to any one who enters into a detail of fashions , to consider how far the vanity of mankind has laid itself out in dress , what a ...
... head , and led me into a set of amusing thoughts concerning them . " I fancied it must be very surprising to any one who enters into a detail of fashions , to consider how far the vanity of mankind has laid itself out in dress , what a ...
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acquainted ADDISON admirer agreeable appear beauty body Britomartis called character Cicero cities of London consider conversation creature delight desire discourse divine drachmas dreams DRYDEN endeavour entertainment epigram eternity eyes fair lady fancy favour fortune freebench gentleman give greatest hand happiness hath hear heard heart honest honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar kind king lady letter live look lover mankind manner marriage married matter mentioned Middle Temple mind nation nature never obliged observed occasion OVID pain paper particular passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present pretty reader reason Rechteren ROSCOMMON SEPTEMBER 13 Shalum soul speak SPECTATOR Tatler tell things thou thought tion Tirzah told town truth VIRG Virgil virtue whig whole wife woman words write young
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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.