The Spectator, Հատոր 5Tonson, 1739 |
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... several Letters , with Accounts of many private Lives caft into that Form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremafer's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious Piece , entitled , The Journal of a Mohock ...
... several Letters , with Accounts of many private Lives caft into that Form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremafer's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious Piece , entitled , The Journal of a Mohock ...
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... several Nations in the World so very barbarous as not to have any Looking - Giaffes among them ; and that he had lately read a Voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the Ladies of Chili al- ways dress their Heads over a ...
... several Nations in the World so very barbarous as not to have any Looking - Giaffes among them ; and that he had lately read a Voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the Ladies of Chili al- ways dress their Heads over a ...
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... several noble Hints of it in the In- fernal Conference . O Prince ! O Chief of many throned Powers , That led th ' imbattel'd Seraphim to War , Too well I fee and rue the dire Event , VOL . V. C That That with fad Overthrow and foul ...
... several noble Hints of it in the In- fernal Conference . O Prince ! O Chief of many throned Powers , That led th ' imbattel'd Seraphim to War , Too well I fee and rue the dire Event , VOL . V. C That That with fad Overthrow and foul ...
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... several other very fublime Images on the fame Subject in the first Book , as alfo in the fecond . What when we fled amain , purfu'd and frook With Heav'n's afflicting Thunder , and befought The Deep to fhelter us ; this Hell then feem'd ...
... several other very fublime Images on the fame Subject in the first Book , as alfo in the fecond . What when we fled amain , purfu'd and frook With Heav'n's afflicting Thunder , and befought The Deep to fhelter us ; this Hell then feem'd ...
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... several Parts , and how beneficial and delightful it is , ⚫ both as a Qualification and an Exercise ; and endeavoured ⚫ to answer all Objections that have been maliciously rais'd against it . I have proceeded to give an Account of the ...
... several Parts , and how beneficial and delightful it is , ⚫ both as a Qualification and an Exercise ; and endeavoured ⚫ to answer all Objections that have been maliciously rais'd against it . I have proceeded to give an Account of the ...
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Էջ 244 - Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.
Էջ 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Էջ 80 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Էջ 232 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Էջ 26 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. " Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field : let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.
Էջ 155 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Էջ 132 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Էջ 29 - I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn, and so conformable to the notions which are given of them in scripture, as this in Milton. After having...
Էջ 20 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Էջ 79 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.