The Spectator, المجلد 8J. Tonson, 1729 |
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الصفحة 14
... greater Freedom , when I was not under any Impediment of thinking : I therefore threw my felf into an Affembly of Ladies , but could not for my Life get in a Word among them ; and found that if I did not change my Company , I was in ...
... greater Freedom , when I was not under any Impediment of thinking : I therefore threw my felf into an Affembly of Ladies , but could not for my Life get in a Word among them ; and found that if I did not change my Company , I was in ...
الصفحة 39
... greater Confequence can be found out to fupply them . One of thefe Blanks is equally quali ' fied for all Offices ; he can ferve in time of Need for a Soldier , a Politician , a Lawyer , or what you please . • I have known in my Time ...
... greater Confequence can be found out to fupply them . One of thefe Blanks is equally quali ' fied for all Offices ; he can ferve in time of Need for a Soldier , a Politician , a Lawyer , or what you please . • I have known in my Time ...
الصفحة 42
... greater or lefs Pro- portion , in every one ; and if you would fearch for Tome particular good Quality in its moft eminent De- gree of Perfection , you will often find it in a Mind , where it is darkned and eclipfed by an hundred other ...
... greater or lefs Pro- portion , in every one ; and if you would fearch for Tome particular good Quality in its moft eminent De- gree of Perfection , you will often find it in a Mind , where it is darkned and eclipfed by an hundred other ...
الصفحة 59
... greater Mon- fter than any that is to be found among all the Creatures which God has made , as indeed there is no Character which appears more defpicable and deformed , in the Eyes of all reasonable Perfons , than that of a Drunkard ...
... greater Mon- fter than any that is to be found among all the Creatures which God has made , as indeed there is no Character which appears more defpicable and deformed , in the Eyes of all reasonable Perfons , than that of a Drunkard ...
الصفحة 62
... greater Compafs of Sound ; and I perceived was as well pleafed with the Invention , as Sappho could have been upon adding two Strings to the Lute . To be fhorr , I found that his whole Kitchen was furnished with with mufical Inftruments ...
... greater Compafs of Sound ; and I perceived was as well pleafed with the Invention , as Sappho could have been upon adding two Strings to the Lute . To be fhorr , I found that his whole Kitchen was furnished with with mufical Inftruments ...
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affure againſt Anſwer Beauty becauſe Cafe caft confider Confideration Converfation Correfpondent Creature defigned Defire Difcourfe difcover Divine endeavour Eternity exifts Eyes faid fame fays fecond feems feen felf felves fenfible fent ferve feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeaking Friday Friend ftill fuch fufficient fuppofe fure Gentleman give greateſt Hand Happineſs happy hath Heart himſelf honeft Honour Humour Husband impoffible Inftance juft Lady laft laſt lefs Letter loft look Love Lover Mafter Mankind miferable Mind moft Monday moſt muft muſt Nature never Number obferved Occafion Ovid Paffion pafs paft Perfon Philofopher Place pleafed pleaſed Pleaſure Poffeffion prefent Publick Reader Reaſon refolved Regifter rife Senfe ſhall Shalum ſhe Soul SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand Tirzah uſe Virg Virtue whofe whole Wife World young
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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.