The Spectator, Band 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have worried him , if his brethren had not come in to his assistance ; upon which , says my author , the dogs were all of them hanged , as having lost ...
... pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have worried him , if his brethren had not come in to his assistance ; upon which , says my author , the dogs were all of them hanged , as having lost ...
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... pretty saying of Thales , Falsehood is just as far distant from truth as the ears are from the eyes . ' . By which he would intimate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the reports of actions which he has not seen . I ...
... pretty saying of Thales , Falsehood is just as far distant from truth as the ears are from the eyes . ' . By which he would intimate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the reports of actions which he has not seen . I ...
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... pretty good estate of his own getting , and passes in the world for a prudent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , that nothing spoils a young fellow's for- tune so much as marrying early ; and that no man ought to think of ...
... pretty good estate of his own getting , and passes in the world for a prudent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , that nothing spoils a young fellow's for- tune so much as marrying early ; and that no man ought to think of ...
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... pretty girl , I shall call Parthenope : her mother sold ale e town - wall . Being often caught there by the or , I was forced at last , that my mistress's repu- might receive no blemish , to confess my addres- vere honorable . Upon this ...
... pretty girl , I shall call Parthenope : her mother sold ale e town - wall . Being often caught there by the or , I was forced at last , that my mistress's repu- might receive no blemish , to confess my addres- vere honorable . Upon this ...
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... after a strange run of ill luck , she was reduced to pawn three lovely pretty children for her last stake . When she had thrown them away , her companion went off , discovering himself by his usual tokens , 88 No. 597 . THE SPECTATOR .
... after a strange run of ill luck , she was reduced to pawn three lovely pretty children for her last stake . When she had thrown them away , her companion went off , discovering himself by his usual tokens , 88 No. 597 . THE SPECTATOR .
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 215 - 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.
Seite 17 - 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.
Seite 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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 ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Seite 217 - 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.
Seite 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Seite 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Seite 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Seite 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Seite 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.