The Spectator, المجلد 8J. Tonson, 1729 |
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الصفحة 3
... fons of the Age , I take leave to Infcribe this Eighth and Last to You , as to a Gentleman who hath ever been ambitious of appearing in the best Company . A 2 You > You are now wholly retired from the bufie Part ΤΟ ...
... fons of the Age , I take leave to Infcribe this Eighth and Last to You , as to a Gentleman who hath ever been ambitious of appearing in the best Company . A 2 You > You are now wholly retired from the bufie Part ΤΟ ...
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... Gentleman makes as many aukward Beaux , as the Ea- finefs of your Favourite Waller hath made infipid Poets . At present You are content to aim all your Charms at your own Spoufe , without further Thought of yet , to of Mischief to any ...
... Gentleman makes as many aukward Beaux , as the Ea- finefs of your Favourite Waller hath made infipid Poets . At present You are content to aim all your Charms at your own Spoufe , without further Thought of yet , to of Mischief to any ...
الصفحة 11
... Gentlemen who were con- cerned in this Work to let me acquaint the World with their Names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to in- form the Reader , that no other Pa pers , which have appeared under the Title of Spectator , fince the ...
... Gentlemen who were con- cerned in this Work to let me acquaint the World with their Names . Perhaps it will be unnecessary to in- form the Reader , that no other Pa pers , which have appeared under the Title of Spectator , fince the ...
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... Gentleman , who used to come to that Coffee - houfe ? But I think I never was better pleased in my Life than about a Week ago , when , as I was battling it across the Table with a young ' Templar , his Companion gave him a Pull by the ...
... Gentleman , who used to come to that Coffee - houfe ? But I think I never was better pleased in my Life than about a Week ago , when , as I was battling it across the Table with a young ' Templar , his Companion gave him a Pull by the ...
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... Gentleman by the Beard , and had like to have knocked his Brains out ; fo that meeting the true Fa- ther , who came ... Gentleman mentioned in the former Pa per , who went off a very well - fhaped Perfon with a Stone in his Bladder ; nor ...
... Gentleman by the Beard , and had like to have knocked his Brains out ; fo that meeting the true Fa- ther , who came ... Gentleman mentioned in the former Pa per , who went off a very well - fhaped Perfon with a Stone in his Bladder ; nor ...
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الصفحة 271 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
الصفحة 269 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
الصفحة 23 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
الصفحة 269 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 23 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
الصفحة 146 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
الصفحة 146 - I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular, and purposely receded from an established rule of the drama, when it has made way for a much higher beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been. Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and...
الصفحة 45 - ... that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty which Milton takes notice of, and opened to the eye a new picture of nature, which was more finely shaded and disposed among softer lights than that which the sun had before discovered to us.
الصفحة 47 - ... capacities, as they are creatures, that is, beings of finite and limited natures. The presence of every created being is confined to a certain measure of space ; and consequently his observation is stinted to a certain number of objects.
الصفحة 22 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities, and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.