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Strana 662
... hand , as is generally used for ingroff- ing bills in Chancery . By this time I have fufficiently tired your patience with my domeftic grievances ; which I hope you in miftaking the proper objects of her efteem , and 662 THE SPECTATOR .
... hand , as is generally used for ingroff- ing bills in Chancery . By this time I have fufficiently tired your patience with my domeftic grievances ; which I hope you in miftaking the proper objects of her efteem , and 662 THE SPECTATOR .
Strana 666
... hope , received from mine good habits and virtues . I repeat to you , Sir , my request to print this , in return for all the evil an helpless orphan fhall ever efcape , and all the good he shall re- ceive in this life ; both which are ...
... hope , received from mine good habits and virtues . I repeat to you , Sir , my request to print this , in return for all the evil an helpless orphan fhall ever efcape , and all the good he shall re- ceive in this life ; both which are ...
Strana 677
... continue to fupport ; I hope your fpectatorial authority will give a feafon- able check to the fpread of the infection ; I mean old men's overbearing the strong- eft est sense of their juniors by the mere force of THE SPECTATOR . 677.
... continue to fupport ; I hope your fpectatorial authority will give a feafon- able check to the fpread of the infection ; I mean old men's overbearing the strong- eft est sense of their juniors by the mere force of THE SPECTATOR . 677.
Strana 678
... hope that hoary heads will raife us above the attacks of contradiction . Now , Sir , as you would enliven our activity in the purfuit of learning , take our cafe into confideration ; and , with a glofs on brave Elihu's fentiments ...
... hope that hoary heads will raife us above the attacks of contradiction . Now , Sir , as you would enliven our activity in the purfuit of learning , take our cafe into confideration ; and , with a glofs on brave Elihu's fentiments ...
Strana 679
... hope you will make allow- ances . I am , Sir , your conftant reader , and very humble fervant , REBECCA THE DISTRESSED . ESSED MARCH THE 22D . T HOR . EP . II . L. I. v . 64 . I from the gentleman , who has already given the public two ...
... hope you will make allow- ances . I am , Sir , your conftant reader , and very humble fervant , REBECCA THE DISTRESSED . ESSED MARCH THE 22D . T HOR . EP . II . L. I. v . 64 . I from the gentleman , who has already given the public two ...
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Strana 722 - For swift descent ; with him the cohort bright Of watchful Cherubim ; four faces each Had, like a double Janus ; all their shape Spangled with eyes more numerous than those...
Strana 823 - But this is certain, that a noble writer should be born with this faculty in its full strength and vigour, so as to be able to receive lively ideas from outward objects, to retain them long, and to range them together, upon occasion, in such figures and representations, as are most likely to hit the fancy of the reader.
Strana 1096 - ... figure in it, that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at myself, insomuch that I put my own face out of countenance. The poor gentleman was so sensible of the ridicule, that I found he was ashamed of what he had done ; on the other side, I found that I myself had no great reason to triumph, for as I went to touch my forehead, I missed the place, and clapped...
Strana 811 - Our general taste in England is for epigram, turns of wit, and forced conceits, which have no manner of influence either for the bettering or enlarging the mind of him who reads them, and have been carefully avoided by the greatest writers, both among the ancients and moderns.
Strana 1096 - ... to them. One of these looked like a man walking upon stilts, and was so lifted up into the air, above his ordinary height, that his head turned round with it ; while the other made...
Strana 793 - Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Strana 754 - Shall finish what his short-lived sire begun : Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sow'd shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods. Waste sandy valleys once perplex'd with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn : To leafless...
Strana 929 - I asked a gentleman the other day, that is famous for a good carver, (at which acquisition he is out of countenance, imagining it may detract from some of his more essential qualifications,) to help me to something that was near him; but he excused himself, and blushing told me, "Of all things he could never carve in his life;" though it can be proved upon him that he cuts up, disjoints, and uncases with incomparable dexterity.
Strana 982 - River being crofled, we were received upon the further Bank by our Friends and Acquaintance, whom Comfort had brought out to congratulate our Appearance in the World again. Some of...
Strana 877 - In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect of a religious life.