The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... mind , that the common fate of those men of honour was to be hanged . " I am , Sir , " Your most humble servant , " PHILANTHROPOS . " March the 10th , 1711-12 . ” The following letter is of a quite contrary nature ; but I add it here ...
... mind , that the common fate of those men of honour was to be hanged . " I am , Sir , " Your most humble servant , " PHILANTHROPOS . " March the 10th , 1711-12 . ” The following letter is of a quite contrary nature ; but I add it here ...
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... mind . 66 “ I am , Sir , your humble servant , " MARY COMFIT . If I observe he cannot speak , I'll give him time to recover him- self , and ask him how he does . " " DEAR SIR , " I BEG you to print No. 326. ] 13 THE SPECTATOR .
... mind . 66 “ I am , Sir , your humble servant , " MARY COMFIT . If I observe he cannot speak , I'll give him time to recover him- self , and ask him how he does . " " DEAR SIR , " I BEG you to print No. 326. ] 13 THE SPECTATOR .
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... mind with glorious ideas of God's works , and awaken that divine enthusiasm which is so natural to devotion . But if ... minds , and had not seen the various dispensations of Providence , nor consequently could be acquainted with those ...
... mind with glorious ideas of God's works , and awaken that divine enthusiasm which is so natural to devotion . But if ... minds , and had not seen the various dispensations of Providence , nor consequently could be acquainted with those ...
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... mind , and all man- ner of attention to a fortune which he now thought desperate ; in- somuch that he died without a will , having before buried my mother in the midst of his other misfortunes . I was sixteen years of age when I lost my ...
... mind , and all man- ner of attention to a fortune which he now thought desperate ; in- somuch that he died without a will , having before buried my mother in the midst of his other misfortunes . I was sixteen years of age when I lost my ...
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... mind of it . * If a gentleman of figure in a county would make his family a pattern of sobriety , good sense , and breeding , and would kindly en- deavour to influence the education and growing prospects of the younger gentry about him ...
... mind of it . * If a gentleman of figure in a county would make his family a pattern of sobriety , good sense , and breeding , and would kindly en- deavour to influence the education and growing prospects of the younger gentry about him ...
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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.