The Spectator, Том 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... person . But I interrupt you too long from your cares , and myself from my conquests . I am , madam , Your most humble servant . " ' Give me leave , Mr. Spectator , to add her friend's answer to this epistle , who is a very discreet ...
... person . But I interrupt you too long from your cares , and myself from my conquests . I am , madam , Your most humble servant . " ' Give me leave , Mr. Spectator , to add her friend's answer to this epistle , who is a very discreet ...
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... my opinion the finest that I ever met with upon this occasion . You know , sir , it is usual , after having told us the name of the person who lies VOL . IX . interred , to launch out into his praises . This No. 518 . 25 SPECTATOR .
... my opinion the finest that I ever met with upon this occasion . You know , sir , it is usual , after having told us the name of the person who lies VOL . IX . interred , to launch out into his praises . This No. 518 . 25 SPECTATOR .
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... person himself some time before his death . " Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei supremi . Qualis erat dies iste indicabit . " " Here lieth R. C. in expectation of the last day . What sort of a man he was that day will discover ...
... person himself some time before his death . " Hic jacet R. C. in expectatione diei supremi . Qualis erat dies iste indicabit . " " Here lieth R. C. in expectation of the last day . What sort of a man he was that day will discover ...
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... person , the mechanism of his dress , the disposition of his limbs , the manner of his gait and air , with a number ... persons concerned in them , you 1 will do a work very becoming the British Spec- Fo . 518 , SPECTATOR .
... person , the mechanism of his dress , the disposition of his limbs , the manner of his gait and air , with a number ... persons concerned in them , you 1 will do a work very becoming the British Spec- Fo . 518 , SPECTATOR .
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... persons most sus- ceptible of the sort of sorrow I have spoken of ; and I dare say you will find upon examination that they are the wisest and the bravest of man- kind who are the most capable of it . Norwich , 7 Octobris , 1712 . I am ...
... persons most sus- ceptible of the sort of sorrow I have spoken of ; and I dare say you will find upon examination that they are the wisest and the bravest of man- kind who are the most capable of it . Norwich , 7 Octobris , 1712 . I am ...
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Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.