The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... hope , excuse this presumption : but the justice I , as a Spectator , owe your character , places me above the want of an excuse . Candour and openness of heart , which shine in all your words and actions , exact the highest esteem from ...
... hope , excuse this presumption : but the justice I , as a Spectator , owe your character , places me above the want of an excuse . Candour and openness of heart , which shine in all your words and actions , exact the highest esteem from ...
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... hope , you will agree , could not well be contained in a narrower compass , when you consider what a paradox I undertook to maintain in the be- ginning of my epistle , and which manifestly appears to be but too melancholy a truth . And ...
... hope , you will agree , could not well be contained in a narrower compass , when you consider what a paradox I undertook to maintain in the be- ginning of my epistle , and which manifestly appears to be but too melancholy a truth . And ...
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... hope you will insert it , that posterity may know ' twas Gabriel Bullock that made love in that natural style of which you seem to be fond . But , to let you see I have other manuscripts in the same way , I have sent you inclosed three ...
... hope you will insert it , that posterity may know ' twas Gabriel Bullock that made love in that natural style of which you seem to be fond . But , to let you see I have other manuscripts in the same way , I have sent you inclosed three ...
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... hope there is no- thing lost for that neither . So hoping you will take this letter in good part , and answer it with what care and speed you can , I rest and remain . 66 Yours , if my own , MR . GABRIEL BULLOCK , 66 now my father is ...
... hope there is no- thing lost for that neither . So hoping you will take this letter in good part , and answer it with what care and speed you can , I rest and remain . 66 Yours , if my own , MR . GABRIEL BULLOCK , 66 now my father is ...
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... hope you are well . Do not go to london , for they will put you in the nunnery ; and heed not Mrs. Lucy what she saith to you , for she will ly and ceat you . go from to another place , and we will gate wed so with speed . mind what i ...
... hope you are well . Do not go to london , for they will put you in the nunnery ; and heed not Mrs. Lucy what she saith to you , for she will ly and ceat you . go from to another place , and we will gate wed so with speed . mind what i ...
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Page 100 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 445 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 392 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 37 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 428 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : 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.
Page 135 - And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand.
Page 270 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision...
Page 428 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. 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...
Page 269 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 271 - ... and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.