The Spiritual Quixote: Or, the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A Comic Romance. In Two Volumes. ...J. Dodsley, 1774 |
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Seite 62 - To us invifible, or dimly feen In thefe thy loweft works ; yet thefe declare Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and pow'r divine.
Seite 79 - Pangs of the new birth and Christ was now forming in them, they professed they would have plucked out their eyes and have given them to the Apostle, Gal. 4. 15. Naaman hath no sooner his leprosy healed, and his heart humbled and cut off from his corruption, but he professed himself and what he had is at the devotion of the Prophet, and that not out of complement but in truth, 2 Kings 5. 15. Take a blessing from thy servant.
Seite 236 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent ftate : From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know : Or who could fuffer Being here below?
Seite 270 - Methodists were good sort of people, for that matter, and did a great deal of good in the world; and were very charitable to the poor; and they preaches main well, as they do say; but for my part, continues he, I never was at their meeting.
Seite 18 - If the reader however has otherwise determined it; if he is of opinion, that every representation of nature, that does not relate to the great world, is to be exploded as contemptible stuff; he will certainly repent of having read thus far; and I would exhort him, by all means, to return in peace to his card-assembly or to his chocolate-house, and pursue so low a subject no further.
Seite 81 - ... sauntering about with their vapourish possessors: who crept out from their neighbouring seats — to contemplate the humours of these aukward rustics, and waste an hour of their tedious month in the country; where (as a great modern observes) 'small matters serve for...
Seite 32 - Stephen, and, like a true Spiritual Quixote, to abandon his dwelling: and, in imitation of Mr. Whitfield and his associates, to use his earnest endeavours, to revive the practice of primitive piety and the doctrines of the Reformation, by turning missionary, and publishing his religious notions in every part of the kingdom.
Seite 59 - This alone, therefore, would have been a sufficient reason for his omitting to be shaved, and nourishing his own hair, which, though it was now thick enough to keep him warm, yet as it did not extend below his ears, he made but an uncouth appearance to those who had been used to see him in a decent periwig.
Seite 179 - what makes you go about in that frightful hair of yours ? I wonder you do not wear a wig, as other gentlemen do.'1 — 'Madam...
Seite 300 - ... to the foolish ambition of being seen in what is called good company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath ; the one is a constant series of flirting and gadding about, the other of sauntering from place to place, without any scheme or pursuit. Scandal or fashions engross the conversation of the former ; the news of the day, the price of fish, the history of the...