The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... nature , without affecting the nicer elegancies of art . What I am now going to mention will , perhaps , deserve your attention more than anything I have yet said . I find that , in the discourse which I spoke of at the beginning of my ...
... nature , without affecting the nicer elegancies of art . What I am now going to mention will , perhaps , deserve your attention more than anything I have yet said . I find that , in the discourse which I spoke of at the beginning of my ...
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... nature is in her desolation , and presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects , there is something unspeakably cheerful in a spot of ground which is covered with trees that smile amidst all the rigours of winter , and give ...
... nature is in her desolation , and presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects , there is something unspeakably cheerful in a spot of ground which is covered with trees that smile amidst all the rigours of winter , and give ...
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... nature , draw their subsistence ; though it is seldom seen that such as these are extremely rich , because their original fault of being founded upon vanity keeps them poor by the light inconstancy of its nature . The variableness of ...
... nature , draw their subsistence ; though it is seldom seen that such as these are extremely rich , because their original fault of being founded upon vanity keeps them poor by the light inconstancy of its nature . The variableness of ...
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... nature or chance , which it is possible to hide by the advantage of clothes , may , by coming to this reposi- tory , be furnished herself , and furnish all who are under the same misfortune , with the most agreeable manner of concealing ...
... nature or chance , which it is possible to hide by the advantage of clothes , may , by coming to this reposi- tory , be furnished herself , and furnish all who are under the same misfortune , with the most agreeable manner of concealing ...
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... nature in their wives . I cannot tell how it is , but I think I see in all their letters that the cause of their uneasiness is in themselves ; and indeed I have hardly ever observed the married condition unhappy but from want of ...
... nature in their wives . I cannot tell how it is , but I think I see in all their letters that the cause of their uneasiness is in themselves ; and indeed I have hardly ever observed the married condition unhappy but from want of ...
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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.