The Spectator, Volume 2George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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Pagina 21
... pleasure . My reader will think I am not serious when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the old ballad of the ' Two Children in the Wood , ' which is one of the darling 1 Richard Baxter , of the Saints ...
... pleasure . My reader will think I am not serious when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the old ballad of the ' Two Children in the Wood , ' which is one of the darling 1 Richard Baxter , of the Saints ...
Pagina 23
... pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the same of Mr. Dryden , and know several of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the same humour . I might likewise refer my reader to Molière's thoughts on this subject ...
... pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the same of Mr. Dryden , and know several of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the same humour . I might likewise refer my reader to Molière's thoughts on this subject ...
Pagina 43
... pleasures all abjure : When out of hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorned With what all earth or heaven could bestow To make her amiable . On she came , Led by her heavenly Maker , though unseen , And ...
... pleasures all abjure : When out of hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorned With what all earth or heaven could bestow To make her amiable . On she came , Led by her heavenly Maker , though unseen , And ...
Pagina 45
... pleasures , and desiring again to enter the body that gave them an opportunity of fulfilling them . Some of our most eminent divines have made use of this Platonic notion , so far as it regards the sub- sistence of our passions after ...
... pleasures , and desiring again to enter the body that gave them an opportunity of fulfilling them . Some of our most eminent divines have made use of this Platonic notion , so far as it regards the sub- sistence of our passions after ...
Pagina 56
... Pleasures of a Country Life , ' ' The Govern- ment of the Tongue . ' A letter dated from Cheap- side desires me that I would advise all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arith- metic , ' and concludes with a ...
... Pleasures of a Country Life , ' ' The Govern- ment of the Tongue . ' A letter dated from Cheap- side desires me that I would advise all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arith- metic , ' and concludes with a ...
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Pagina 142 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which "is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of...
Pagina 371 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, 'Surely,' said I, 'man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Pagina 59 - We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Pagina 146 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a common-prayer book...
Pagina 166 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Pagina 118 - Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry.
Pagina 117 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Pagina 121 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the...
Pagina 122 - ... much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Pagina 370 - Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — " On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always...