The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Pagina 16
... whole cir- cumstance . ' Robin came back in an instant , and Cynthio an- swered- 6 MADAM , Half an hour six minutes after three , June 4 , Will's coffee - house . ' It is certain I went by your lodgings with a gen- tlewoman to whom I ...
... whole cir- cumstance . ' Robin came back in an instant , and Cynthio an- swered- 6 MADAM , Half an hour six minutes after three , June 4 , Will's coffee - house . ' It is certain I went by your lodgings with a gen- tlewoman to whom I ...
Pagina 29
copy of , that you might the better know the whole case . ' I must further acquaint you , that before I jilted him , there had been the greatest intimacy between us for a year and a half together , during all which time I cherished his ...
copy of , that you might the better know the whole case . ' I must further acquaint you , that before I jilted him , there had been the greatest intimacy between us for a year and a half together , during all which time I cherished his ...
Pagina 35
... whole affliction . He spoke of the injury done me with so much indignation , and animated me against the love he said he saw I had for the wretch who would have betrayed me , with so much reason and humanity to my weakness , that I ...
... whole affliction . He spoke of the injury done me with so much indignation , and animated me against the love he said he saw I had for the wretch who would have betrayed me , with so much reason and humanity to my weakness , that I ...
Pagina 36
... reason , when any public affair is upon the anvil , I love to hear the reflections that arise upon it in the several districts and parishes of London and Westminster , and to ramble up and down a whole 36 403 . SPECTATOR .
... reason , when any public affair is upon the anvil , I love to hear the reflections that arise upon it in the several districts and parishes of London and Westminster , and to ramble up and down a whole 36 403 . SPECTATOR .
Pagina 37
... whole outward room in a buz of politics . The speculations were but very indifferent towards the door , but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the room , and were so very much improved by a knot of theorists , who sat in the ...
... whole outward room in a buz of politics . The speculations were but very indifferent towards the door , but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the room , and were so very much improved by a knot of theorists , who sat in the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 330 - 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.
Pagina 366 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Pagina 214 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 323 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Pagina 142 - Softly on my eyelids laid ; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Pagina 367 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Pagina 74 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that...
Pagina 270 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Pagina 366 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 318 - Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and...