The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1855 |
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... lady in the land , if she could but reckon up their names . I must own , I conceived very extraordinary hopes of you from the moment that you confessed your age , and from eight - and - forty ( where you had stuck so many years ) very ...
... lady in the land , if she could but reckon up their names . I must own , I conceived very extraordinary hopes of you from the moment that you confessed your age , and from eight - and - forty ( where you had stuck so many years ) very ...
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... lady propose her doubts , and to see the pains she is at to get over them . I must not here omit a practice that is in use among the vainer part of our own sex , who will often ask a friend's advice in relation to a fortune whom they ...
... lady propose her doubts , and to see the pains she is at to get over them . I must not here omit a practice that is in use among the vainer part of our own sex , who will often ask a friend's advice in relation to a fortune whom they ...
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... lady to his bed , with no other consideration than the expectation of scenes of dalliance , and thought of her ( as I said before ) only as she was to administer to the gratification of desire ; as that desire flags , will , without her ...
... lady to his bed , with no other consideration than the expectation of scenes of dalliance , and thought of her ( as I said before ) only as she was to administer to the gratification of desire ; as that desire flags , will , without her ...
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... lady , who calls herself Euterpe , and seems a woman of letters , asks me whether I am for establishing the Salic law in every family , and why it is not fit that a woman who has discretion and learning should sit at the helm , when the ...
... lady , who calls herself Euterpe , and seems a woman of letters , asks me whether I am for establishing the Salic law in every family , and why it is not fit that a woman who has discretion and learning should sit at the helm , when the ...
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... lady that lost her beauty by the small - pox , she fetches a deep sigh , and tells you , that when she had a fine face she was always looking on it in her glass . Tell her of a piece of good fortune that has befallen one of her ...
... lady that lost her beauty by the small - pox , she fetches a deep sigh , and tells you , that when she had a fine face she was always looking on it in her glass . Tell her of a piece of good fortune that has befallen one of her ...
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Page 199 - 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 436 - 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 437 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 313 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Page 199 - 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 198 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 256 - The heap was at last distributed among the two sexes, who made a most piteous sight, as they wandered up and down under the pressure of their several burdens. The whole plain was filled with murmurs and complaints, groans, and lamentations.
Page 44 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Page 125 - ... and you know he used to take great delight in it. From that time forward he grew worse and worse, but still kept a good heart to the last. Indeed we were once in great hope of his recovery, upon a kind message that was sent him...
Page 314 - 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.