The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... passions at rest . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence , and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation . I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction which a man takes in these works ...
... passions at rest . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence , and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation . I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction which a man takes in these works ...
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... passion , and beholds what he loves , as liable to all the calamities of human life both in body and mind , and even at the best what must bring upon him new cares , and new relations ; such a lover , I say , will form himself accord ...
... passion , and beholds what he loves , as liable to all the calamities of human life both in body and mind , and even at the best what must bring upon him new cares , and new relations ; such a lover , I say , will form himself accord ...
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... passion in perfection , in occasions of joy , can say to himself , besides his own satisfaction , " How happy will this make my wife and children ! " Upon occurrences of dis- tress , or danger , can comfort himself , " But all this ...
... passion in perfection , in occasions of joy , can say to himself , besides his own satisfaction , " How happy will this make my wife and children ! " Upon occurrences of dis- tress , or danger , can comfort himself , " But all this ...
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... passion to the handsome gentleman seems to be so fixed to that part of the building , that it will be extremely difficult to divert it to mine ; so that I am resolved to stand boldly to the complexion of my own eyebrow , and prepare me ...
... passion to the handsome gentleman seems to be so fixed to that part of the building , that it will be extremely difficult to divert it to mine ; so that I am resolved to stand boldly to the complexion of my own eyebrow , and prepare me ...
الصفحة 37
... passion which it is mean to indulge , and which it would be glorious to overcome . 6 " These sort of fellows are very numerous , and some have been conspicuously such , without shame ; nay , they have No. 486. ] 37 THE SPECTATOR .
... passion which it is mean to indulge , and which it would be glorious to overcome . 6 " These sort of fellows are very numerous , and some have been conspicuously such , without shame ; nay , they have No. 486. ] 37 THE SPECTATOR .
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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.