The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Հատոր 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... telling - Epitaph in -Pancras churchyard · 539 The intentions of a widow respecting her suitors On delay in marriage • ADDISON HUGHES . ADDISON · STEELE BUDGELL • On a clergyman spoiling one of Tillotson's ser- mons 540 Letter on the ...
... telling - Epitaph in -Pancras churchyard · 539 The intentions of a widow respecting her suitors On delay in marriage • ADDISON HUGHES . ADDISON · STEELE BUDGELL • On a clergyman spoiling one of Tillotson's ser- mons 540 Letter on the ...
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... tell the town the story of the Sibyls , if they deny giving you twopence . Let them know , that those sacred papers were valued at the same rate after two - thirds of them were destroyed , as when there was the whole set . There are so ...
... tell the town the story of the Sibyls , if they deny giving you twopence . Let them know , that those sacred papers were valued at the same rate after two - thirds of them were destroyed , as when there was the whole set . There are so ...
Էջ 7
... said , I saw the passage ; and I assure you it is very true , and yet no common one ; and when I tell you the sequel , you will say I have a better reason for it . This very mayor afterwards erected a statue 462 . 7 SPECTATOR .
... said , I saw the passage ; and I assure you it is very true , and yet no common one ; and when I tell you the sequel , you will say I have a better reason for it . This very mayor afterwards erected a statue 462 . 7 SPECTATOR .
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... telling the result of this experiment . Having an op- portunity of this nature in my hands , I could not for- bear throwing into one scale the principles of a Tory , and into the other those of a Whig ; but as I have all along declared ...
... telling the result of this experiment . Having an op- portunity of this nature in my hands , I could not for- bear throwing into one scale the principles of a Tory , and into the other those of a Whig ; but as I have all along declared ...
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... tell you the plain truth , I catched her once , at eleven years old , at chuck - farthing among the boys . This put me upon new thoughts about my child , and I determined to place her at a boarding - school ; and at the same time gave a ...
... tell you the plain truth , I catched her once , at eleven years old , at chuck - farthing among the boys . This put me upon new thoughts about my child , and I determined to place her at a boarding - school ; and at the same time gave a ...
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Էջ 22 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Էջ 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment ? that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Էջ 22 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Էջ 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Էջ 378 - 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?
Էջ 378 - 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— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Էջ 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Էջ 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Էջ 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in 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 idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Էջ 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.