The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... present they are . Indeed where any of the guests are known to measure their fame or pleasure by their glass , proper exhortations might be used to these to push their fortunes in this sort of reputation ; but where VOL . IV . B it is ...
... present they are . Indeed where any of the guests are known to measure their fame or pleasure by their glass , proper exhortations might be used to these to push their fortunes in this sort of reputation ; but where VOL . IV . B it is ...
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... present I have not that command of these convulsions as is necessary to be good company ; therefore I beg you would publish this letter , and let me be known all at once for a queer fellow and avoided . It is monstrous to me , that we ...
... present I have not that command of these convulsions as is necessary to be good company ; therefore I beg you would publish this letter , and let me be known all at once for a queer fellow and avoided . It is monstrous to me , that we ...
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... present purpose ? " I have known Tom eloquent half an hour together , and triumphing , as he thought , in the supe- riority of the argument , when he has been nonplussed on a sudden by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell the company what it ...
... present purpose ? " I have known Tom eloquent half an hour together , and triumphing , as he thought , in the supe- riority of the argument , when he has been nonplussed on a sudden by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell the company what it ...
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... present mind , appellations of honour would but embarrass discourse , and new behaviour towards me perplex me in every habitude of life . I am also to acknowledge to you , that my children , of whom your Ma- jesty condescended to ...
... present mind , appellations of honour would but embarrass discourse , and new behaviour towards me perplex me in every habitude of life . I am also to acknowledge to you , that my children , of whom your Ma- jesty condescended to ...
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... present dependence upon , has it in his nature , as well as in his power , to advance me , by recommending me to a gentleman that is going beyond sea in a public employ- ment . I know the printing this letter would point me out to those ...
... present dependence upon , has it in his nature , as well as in his power , to advance me , by recommending me to a gentleman that is going beyond sea in a public employ- ment . I know the printing this letter would point me out to those ...
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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.