The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... relations . There should also be another club of such men , who have not succeeded so well in maiming themselves , but are however in the constant pursuit of these ac- complishments . I would by no means be suspected , by what I have ...
... relations . There should also be another club of such men , who have not succeeded so well in maiming themselves , but are however in the constant pursuit of these ac- complishments . I would by no means be suspected , by what I have ...
Strana 6
... relation to a fortune whom they are never like to come at . WILL HONEYCOMB , who is now on the verge of threescore , took me aside not long since , and asked me in his most serious look , whether I would advise him to marry my Lady ...
... relation to a fortune whom they are never like to come at . WILL HONEYCOMB , who is now on the verge of threescore , took me aside not long since , and asked me in his most serious look , whether I would advise him to marry my Lady ...
Strana 14
... relation to the design . Thus there may be an imitation of fringe carved in the base , a sort of appearance of lace in the frieze , and a representation of curling locks , with bows of ribbon sloping over them , may fill up the work of ...
... relation to the design . Thus there may be an imitation of fringe carved in the base , a sort of appearance of lace in the frieze , and a representation of curling locks , with bows of ribbon sloping over them , may fill up the work of ...
Strana 16
... relation to dress , is almost extinct , it will , I fear , be absolutely necessary to take in all time - servers , properly so deemed : that is , such as , without any conviction of conscience , or view of interest , change with the ...
... relation to dress , is almost extinct , it will , I fear , be absolutely necessary to take in all time - servers , properly so deemed : that is , such as , without any conviction of conscience , or view of interest , change with the ...
Strana 17
... relations ; such a lover , I say , will form himself accord . ingly , and adapt his mind to the nature of his circumstances . This latter person will be prepared to be a father , a friend , an advocate , a steward for people yet unborn ...
... relations ; such a lover , I say , will form himself accord . ingly , and adapt his mind to the nature of his circumstances . This latter person will be prepared to be a father , a friend , an advocate , a steward for people yet unborn ...
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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.