The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Հատորներ 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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... keeps himself a There are three very material points which I have not spoken to in this paper ; and which , for several important reasons , I must keep to myself , at least for some * Soho - square was at that time the genteelest part ...
... keeps himself a There are three very material points which I have not spoken to in this paper ; and which , for several important reasons , I must keep to myself , at least for some * Soho - square was at that time the genteelest part ...
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... . Ars Poet , ver . 5 . Admitted to the sight , would you not laugh ? AN opera may be allowed to be extrava- gantly lavish in its decorations , as its only design is to gratify the senses , and keep up No. 5. ] 23 THE SPECTATOR .
... . Ars Poet , ver . 5 . Admitted to the sight , would you not laugh ? AN opera may be allowed to be extrava- gantly lavish in its decorations , as its only design is to gratify the senses , and keep up No. 5. ] 23 THE SPECTATOR .
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... keep one another in countenance . The room where the club met was something of the largest , and had two entrances , the one by a door of a moderate size , and the other by a pair ' Before George , ' is still fresh in every one's memory ...
... keep one another in countenance . The room where the club met was something of the largest , and had two entrances , the one by a door of a moderate size , and the other by a pair ' Before George , ' is still fresh in every one's memory ...
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... keep up the spirit of a men , whether out of a nicer regard to their paper which I oblige myself to furnish every honour , or what other reason , I cannot day ; but to make them easy in this parti- tell , are more sensibly touched with ...
... keep up the spirit of a men , whether out of a nicer regard to their paper which I oblige myself to furnish every honour , or what other reason , I cannot day ; but to make them easy in this parti- tell , are more sensibly touched with ...
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... keep me from being alone . This I bore for two or three days ; but telling me one day that he was afraid I was melancholy , I thought it was high time for me to be gone , and accordingly took new lodgings that very night . About a week ...
... keep me from being alone . This I bore for two or three days ; but telling me one day that he was afraid I was melancholy , I thought it was high time for me to be gone , and accordingly took new lodgings that very night . About a week ...
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Էջ 236 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
Էջ 236 - But tell me farther,' said he, ' what thou discoverest on it.' ' I see multitudes of people passing over it,' said I, ' and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it : and upon...
Էջ 53 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Էջ 172 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Էջ 237 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it." I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Էջ 236 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains. I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and, passing from one thought to another,
Էջ 164 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with ; on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Էջ 165 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he out-lives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and, though he does not know I have taken...
Էջ 437 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Էջ 264 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...