The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings, Volume 3H.D. Symonds, T. Hurst, J. Walker, J. Scatcherd, A. and J. Black and H. Parry, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, E. Lloyd, Otridge and Son, J Cuthell, Jordan Hookham, W. Miller, S. Bagster, R. Ryan, and R.H. Westley, 1794 |
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Pagina 7
... give his judgment rashly , that " much might be said on both sides . " They were neither of them dissatisfied with the Knight's determination , because neither of them found himself in the wrong by it . Upon which we made the best of ...
... give his judgment rashly , that " much might be said on both sides . " They were neither of them dissatisfied with the Knight's determination , because neither of them found himself in the wrong by it . Upon which we made the best of ...
Pagina 13
... give him a fi- gure in his country , but secretly tormented with that passion which burns with the greatest fury in a virtuous and noble heart , when he received a sudden summons from LEONTINE to repair to him in the country the next ...
... give him a fi- gure in his country , but secretly tormented with that passion which burns with the greatest fury in a virtuous and noble heart , when he received a sudden summons from LEONTINE to repair to him in the country the next ...
Pagina 20
... give the common enemy , but to those private evils which they produce in the heart of almost every particular person . This influence is very fatal both to men's morals and their understandings ; it sinks the virtue of a nation , and ...
... give the common enemy , but to those private evils which they produce in the heart of almost every particular person . This influence is very fatal both to men's morals and their understandings ; it sinks the virtue of a nation , and ...
Pagina 29
... give the country their revenge . Since your withdrawing from this place , the fair sex are run into great extravagancies . Their petticoats , which began to heave and swell before you left us , are now blown up into a most enormous ...
... give the country their revenge . Since your withdrawing from this place , the fair sex are run into great extravagancies . Their petticoats , which began to heave and swell before you left us , are now blown up into a most enormous ...
Pagina 44
... give credit to reports , our linguist having received such extraordinary rudiments towards a good education , was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a gentleman ; wearing off by little and little all the vici- ous habits ...
... give credit to reports , our linguist having received such extraordinary rudiments towards a good education , was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a gentleman ; wearing off by little and little all the vici- ous habits ...
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Pagina 168 - I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Pagina 169 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Pagina 167 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Pagina 165 - I ascended the high hills of 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 168 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Pagina 167 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me farther, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Pagina 257 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Pagina 166 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity.
Pagina 184 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Pagina 184 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.