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 , 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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... character of the mighty Pharamond of France , and the close friendship be- tween him and his friend Eucrate , I found among the letters which had been in the custody of the latter an epistle from a country gentleman , to Pharamond ...
... character of the mighty Pharamond of France , and the close friendship be- tween him and his friend Eucrate , I found among the letters which had been in the custody of the latter an epistle from a country gentleman , to Pharamond ...
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Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 44 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.