The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... 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 favourite Waller hath made insipid poets . At present you are ...
... 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 favourite Waller hath made insipid poets . At present you are ...
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... whole day together , and every moment discover some- thing or other that is new to you ; but when you have done , you will have but a confused imperfect notion of the place : in the other , your eye commands the whole prospect , and ...
... whole day together , and every moment discover some- thing or other that is new to you ; but when you have done , you will have but a confused imperfect notion of the place : in the other , your eye commands the whole prospect , and ...
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... . At such times , therefore , I think there could not be a greater pleasure than to walk in such a winter garden as I have proposed . In the summer season the whole country blooms , and is a kind No. 477. ] 11 THE SPECTATOR .
... . At such times , therefore , I think there could not be a greater pleasure than to walk in such a winter garden as I have proposed . In the summer season the whole country blooms , and is a kind No. 477. ] 11 THE SPECTATOR .
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... whole country blooms , and is a kind of garden ; for which reason we are not so sensible of those beauties that at this time may be everywhere met with ; but when nature is in her desolation , and presents us with nothing but bleak and ...
... whole country blooms , and is a kind of garden ; for which reason we are not so sensible of those beauties that at this time may be everywhere met with ; but when nature is in her desolation , and presents us with nothing but bleak and ...
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... whole family as a set of silly women and children , for recounting things which were really above his own capacity . When I say all this , I cannot deny but there are perverse jades that fall to men's lots , with whom it requires more ...
... whole family as a set of silly women and children , for recounting things which were really above his own capacity . When I say all this , I cannot deny but there are perverse jades that fall to men's lots , with whom it requires more ...
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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.