The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... sure MR . * See No. 424 , 429 , and 440 . Thought to have been written by the Rev. Richard Parker , an eminent Greek scholar , and many years vicar of Embleton , in Northumberland . A man , who , pretending to be gifted with the second ...
... sure MR . * See No. 424 , 429 , and 440 . Thought to have been written by the Rev. Richard Parker , an eminent Greek scholar , and many years vicar of Embleton , in Northumberland . A man , who , pretending to be gifted with the second ...
Strana 7
... sure , if you saw him , you would like him . He is a very good scholar , and can talk Latin as fast as English . I wish you could but see him dance . Now you must understand poor Mr. Shapely has no estate ; but how can he help that ...
... sure , if you saw him , you would like him . He is a very good scholar , and can talk Latin as fast as English . I wish you could but see him dance . Now you must understand poor Mr. Shapely has no estate ; but how can he help that ...
Strana 18
... sure never to be dis- composed on the backs of steeds less restive . At several times , to different persons , on the same subject , he has said , " My dear friend , you are beholden to Xantippe , that I bear so well your flying out in ...
... sure never to be dis- composed on the backs of steeds less restive . At several times , to different persons , on the same subject , he has said , " My dear friend , you are beholden to Xantippe , that I bear so well your flying out in ...
Strana 33
... sure of this wanton person , the same author adds further , that ' a stone is heavy , and the sand weighty , but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both . ' It is impossible to suppress my own illustration upon this matter , which is ...
... sure of this wanton person , the same author adds further , that ' a stone is heavy , and the sand weighty , but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both . ' It is impossible to suppress my own illustration upon this matter , which is ...
Strana 38
... Sure this is being hen - pecked with a vengeance ! But , without dwelling upon these less frequent instances of eminent cullyism , what is there so com- mon as to hear a fellow curse his fate that he cannot get rid of a passion to a ...
... Sure this is being hen - pecked with a vengeance ! But , without dwelling upon these less frequent instances of eminent cullyism , what is there so com- mon as to hear a fellow curse his fate that he cannot get rid of a passion to a ...
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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.