The Spectator, Volume 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... mentioned say with an oath , There is no raillery in the thing , she certainly loves the puppy . ' My gentleman , when we were dancing , took an occasion to be very soft in his ogling upon a lady he danced with , and whom he knew of all ...
... mentioned say with an oath , There is no raillery in the thing , she certainly loves the puppy . ' My gentleman , when we were dancing , took an occasion to be very soft in his ogling upon a lady he danced with , and whom he knew of all ...
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... mention nothing of it , but are filled with many particulars to the honour of the good old man . I have likewise a letter from the butler , who took so much care of me last sum- mer when I was at the knight's house . As my friend the ...
... mention nothing of it , but are filled with many particulars to the honour of the good old man . I have likewise a letter from the butler , who took so much care of me last sum- mer when I was at the knight's house . As my friend the ...
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... mentioned . They are written in a dif- ferent manner ; the first being in the diffused and luxuriant , the second in the close contracted style . The first has much of the simple and pa- thetic ; the second is something light , but nerv ...
... mentioned . They are written in a dif- ferent manner ; the first being in the diffused and luxuriant , the second in the close contracted style . The first has much of the simple and pa- thetic ; the second is something light , but nerv ...
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... mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of se- veral rocks , and immediately die upon their be- ing severed from the place where they grow . There are many other ...
... mention only that species of shell - fish , which are formed in the fashion of a cone , that grow to the surface of se- veral rocks , and immediately die upon their be- ing severed from the place where they grow . There are many other ...
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... mentioned , which seems very naturally de- ducible from the foregoing considerations . the scale of being rises by such a regular pro- gress so high as man , we may , by a parity of reason , suppose that it still proceeds gradually ...
... mentioned , which seems very naturally de- ducible from the foregoing considerations . the scale of being rises by such a regular pro- gress so high as man , we may , by a parity of reason , suppose that it still proceeds gradually ...
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Page 139 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Page 254 - 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.
Page 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Page 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Page 139 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Page 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Page 223 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered •with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind.
Page 88 - ... ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Page 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.