The Spectator ...George Gregory Smith J. M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... Readers had much more Regard to the Advice I gave them , since I have yet received very few Accounts of any notorious Trips made in the last Month . But tho ' I hope for the best , I shall not pronounce too positively on this Point ...
... Readers had much more Regard to the Advice I gave them , since I have yet received very few Accounts of any notorious Trips made in the last Month . But tho ' I hope for the best , I shall not pronounce too positively on this Point ...
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... Readers to return to their Romances and Chocolate , provided they make use of them with Moderation , ' till about the middle of the Month , when the Sun shall have made some Progress in the Crab . Nothing is more dangerous , than too ...
... Readers to return to their Romances and Chocolate , provided they make use of them with Moderation , ' till about the middle of the Month , when the Sun shall have made some Progress in the Crab . Nothing is more dangerous , than too ...
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... Reader's Leave to present him with a Letter that I received about half a Year ago from a Gentleman of Cambridge , who stiles himself Peter de Quír . I have kept it by me some Months , and though I did not know at first what to make of ...
... Reader's Leave to present him with a Letter that I received about half a Year ago from a Gentleman of Cambridge , who stiles himself Peter de Quír . I have kept it by me some Months , and though I did not know at first what to make of ...
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... Reader , than the most laboured Strokes in a well written Tragedy , Truth and Matter of Fact sets the Person actually before us in the one , whom Faction places at a greater Distance from us in the other . I do not remember to have seen ...
... Reader , than the most laboured Strokes in a well written Tragedy , Truth and Matter of Fact sets the Person actually before us in the one , whom Faction places at a greater Distance from us in the other . I do not remember to have seen ...
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... Reader that this Princess was then under Prosecution for Disloyalty to the King's Bed , and that she was afterwards publickly beheaded upon the same Account , though this Prosecution was believed by many to pro ceed , as she herself ...
... Reader that this Princess was then under Prosecution for Disloyalty to the King's Bed , and that she was afterwards publickly beheaded upon the same Account , though this Prosecution was believed by many to pro ceed , as she herself ...
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Page 163 - 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.
Page 253 - 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.
Page 11 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since have pointed unto, your Grace being not ignorant of my suspicion therein. But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise...
Page 275 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 253 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 56 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision that are most agreeable to the Imagination...
Page 253 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 58 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Page 155 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 10 - YOUR grace's displeasure, and my imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be mine ancient professed enemy.