The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Հատոր 11808 |
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... reason to hope , that an indulgent public will welcome its Miniature . Our object has been , by a judicious selection , and by omitting the pa- pers which had only a temporary adaptation , to render more universal the circulation of ...
... reason to hope , that an indulgent public will welcome its Miniature . Our object has been , by a judicious selection , and by omitting the pa- pers which had only a temporary adaptation , to render more universal the circulation of ...
Էջ xxxvi
... reason to lament this defect in him , for he was above all men in that talent called humour . " ADDISON'S conversation , " says POPE , " had something in it more This anecdote , recorded of Addison , has been poetically related by a ...
... reason to lament this defect in him , for he was above all men in that talent called humour . " ADDISON'S conversation , " says POPE , " had something in it more This anecdote , recorded of Addison , has been poetically related by a ...
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... reason idiots are still in request in most of the courts of Germany , where there is not a prince of any great magnificence , who has not two or three dressed , distinguished , undisputed fools in his retinue , whom the rest of the ...
... reason idiots are still in request in most of the courts of Germany , where there is not a prince of any great magnificence , who has not two or three dressed , distinguished , undisputed fools in his retinue , whom the rest of the ...
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... reason they always place by the corpse of their dead friend a bow and arrows , that he may make use of the souls of them in the other world , as he did of their wooden bodies in this . How absurd soever such an opinion as this may ...
... reason they always place by the corpse of their dead friend a bow and arrows , that he may make use of the souls of them in the other world , as he did of their wooden bodies in this . How absurd soever such an opinion as this may ...
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... reason of a thick forest made up of bushes , brambles , and pointed thorns , so perplexed and interwoven with one another , that it was impossible to find a passage through it . Whilst he was looking about for some track or path- way ...
... reason of a thick forest made up of bushes , brambles , and pointed thorns , so perplexed and interwoven with one another , that it was impossible to find a passage through it . Whilst he was looking about for some track or path- way ...
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Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
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Էջ 42 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Էջ 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Էջ 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Էջ 118 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Էջ 176 - 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, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Էջ 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Էջ 42 - 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...
Էջ 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Էջ 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Էջ 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.