The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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Strana 8
... less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing , provided a man would talk to make himself understood . I , who hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my ...
... less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing , provided a man would talk to make himself understood . I , who hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my ...
Strana 9
... less sense than himself , and the contempt of all those who have more . There is none in town whom Tom dreads so much as my friend Will Dry . Will , who is acquainted with Tom's logic , when he finds him running off the question , cuts ...
... less sense than himself , and the contempt of all those who have more . There is none in town whom Tom dreads so much as my friend Will Dry . Will , who is acquainted with Tom's logic , when he finds him running off the question , cuts ...
Strana 18
... less turned to reflection than I was : but it was a pleasing speculation to remark on the happiness of a life , in which things of no moment give occasion of hope , self satisfaction , and triumph . On the other hand , I have known an ...
... less turned to reflection than I was : but it was a pleasing speculation to remark on the happiness of a life , in which things of no moment give occasion of hope , self satisfaction , and triumph . On the other hand , I have known an ...
Strana 20
... less capacities of moving with a good grace , hearing a ready affability to all around me , and acting with ease before many , have quite left me . I am come to that , with regard to my person , that I consider it only as a machine I am ...
... less capacities of moving with a good grace , hearing a ready affability to all around me , and acting with ease before many , have quite left me . I am come to that , with regard to my person , that I consider it only as a machine I am ...
Strana 30
... . Wants Messala's pow'rful eloquence , Or is less read than deep Cascellius ; ' ROSCOMMON . so I cannot conceive the injustice done to the public 30 [ No. 484 . THE SPECTATOR . No. 484. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1712. ...
... . Wants Messala's pow'rful eloquence , Or is less read than deep Cascellius ; ' ROSCOMMON . so I cannot conceive the injustice done to the public 30 [ No. 484 . THE SPECTATOR . No. 484. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1712. ...
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Strana 189 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Strana 426 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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.
Strana 36 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Strana 296 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Strana 114 - WE last night received a piece of ill news at our club, which very sensibly afflicted every one of us. I question not but my readers themselves will be troubled at the hearing of it. To keep them no longer in suspense, Sir Roger de Coverley is dead. He departed this life at his house in the country, after a few weeks
Strana 427 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Strana 189 - 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...
Strana 294 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Strana 36 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Strana 304 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.