The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... character of a good - natured , honest , and accomplished gentleman . But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laud- able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private ...
... character of a good - natured , honest , and accomplished gentleman . But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laud- able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private ...
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... character of a good - natured , honest , and accomplished gentleman . But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laud- able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private ...
... character of a good - natured , honest , and accomplished gentleman . But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laud- able for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own private ...
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... character , notwithstanding the study and practice of them is the whole business of their lives . But I need not tell you that the free and disengaged behaviour of a fine gentle- man makes as many awkward beaux , as the easiness of your ...
... character , notwithstanding the study and practice of them is the whole business of their lives . But I need not tell you that the free and disengaged behaviour of a fine gentle- man makes as many awkward beaux , as the easiness of your ...
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... of the public in the character of a fortune - teller , and amassed considerable property . He either was , or affected to be deaf , and dumb . See No. 260 . SPECTATOR , he is a very learned and wise man 4 [ No. 474 . THE SPECTATOR .
... of the public in the character of a fortune - teller , and amassed considerable property . He either was , or affected to be deaf , and dumb . See No. 260 . SPECTATOR , he is a very learned and wise man 4 [ No. 474 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... character she was to expect , begged her not to go on , for that she had been privately married to him above a fortnight . The truth of it is , a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes . When she has made her ...
... character she was to expect , begged her not to go on , for that she had been privately married to him above a fortnight . The truth of it is , a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes . When she has made her ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 294 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Page 36 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Page 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.