The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... objects , which , though they are proper for every stage of life , are so more especially for the last . Horace de- scribes an old usurer as so charmed with the plea- sures of a country life , that in order to make a pur- chase he ...
... objects , which , though they are proper for every stage of life , are so more especially for the last . Horace de- scribes an old usurer as so charmed with the plea- sures of a country life , that in order to make a pur- chase he ...
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... objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect others . This imperfection which we ob- serve in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves in some degree to creatures of the highest ...
... objects at the same time . If we are careful to inspect some things , we must of course neglect others . This imperfection which we ob- serve in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves in some degree to creatures of the highest ...
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... objects among which he seems to be incessantly employed , if we consider , in the first place , that he is omnipresent ; and , in the second , that he is omniscient . If we consider him in his omnipresence , his being passes through ...
... objects among which he seems to be incessantly employed , if we consider , in the first place , that he is omnipresent ; and , in the second , that he is omniscient . If we consider him in his omnipresence , his being passes through ...
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... objects that lie contiguous to them . Their knowledge and observation turn within a very narrow circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every thing in which he resides , infinite space gives room to infinite knowledge ...
... objects that lie contiguous to them . Their knowledge and observation turn within a very narrow circle . But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every thing in which he resides , infinite space gives room to infinite knowledge ...
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... which he is most inclined ; but wine makes every la- tent seed sprout up in the soul , and show itself ; it gives fury to the passions , and force to those objects her so . 6 fel- which are apt to produce 94 No. 569 . SPECTATOR .
... which he is most inclined ; but wine makes every la- tent seed sprout up in the soul , and show itself ; it gives fury to the passions , and force to those objects her so . 6 fel- which are apt to produce 94 No. 569 . SPECTATOR .
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acquainted agreeable Anacreon annis Miles antediluvian appear beautiful Blank body character Cicero consider conversation creatures daugh delight dervis desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes fancy Flamstead FRIDAY gentleman give glory hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humble servant humour husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar June 24 kind king lady letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Menander ment mind MONDAY nation nature never obliged observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper particular passion person Peter Motteux pleased pleasure poet praise present Publius Syrus reader reason received Renatus Harris ROSCOMMON says secret Shalum short soul speak Spectator tell thing thor thou thought tion Tirzah told truth VIRG virtue Waitfort WEDNESDAY whig whole widow words write young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 340 - 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.
Seite 340 - 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 134 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 156 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 188 - Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Seite 81 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 198 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Seite 102 - I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
Seite 33 - I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished The Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in memory of our friendship.
Seite 122 - A. LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, " Father (says he) you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world." " True, son, (said the hermit;) but what is thy condition if there is?" Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather, for two different lives. His first life is short and transient; his second, permanent and lasting. The question we are all concerned in is this, In which of...