The Spectator, Volume 4Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton, 1853 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... paper of yours she gives me the least encouragement , I doubt not but I shall surmount all other difficulties ; and in- spired by so noble a motive for the care of my for- tune , as the belief she is to be concerned in it , I will not ...
... paper of yours she gives me the least encouragement , I doubt not but I shall surmount all other difficulties ; and in- spired by so noble a motive for the care of my for- tune , as the belief she is to be concerned in it , I will not ...
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... more easily flattered myself that you would one time or other resume this considera- e By Steele , from the letter - box . See No. 324 , note on signature T. tion , because you tell us that the 168th paper No. 307. ] 25 THE SPECTATOR .
... more easily flattered myself that you would one time or other resume this considera- e By Steele , from the letter - box . See No. 324 , note on signature T. tion , because you tell us that the 168th paper No. 307. ] 25 THE SPECTATOR .
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... paper . See Tat . in cr . 8vo . ed . 1786 , Vol . IV . No. 159 , p . 344. Latin note . ' Ex paterno ingenio nihil habuit præter urbanitatem , nam huic natura memoriam dempserat , et si quid ex ea supererat , ebrietas subducebat . in the ...
... paper . See Tat . in cr . 8vo . ed . 1786 , Vol . IV . No. 159 , p . 344. Latin note . ' Ex paterno ingenio nihil habuit præter urbanitatem , nam huic natura memoriam dempserat , et si quid ex ea supererat , ebrietas subducebat . in the ...
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... paper called The Historian . I have read it carefully , and find it written with skill , good sense , modesty , and fire . " You must allow the town is kinder to you than you deserve ; and I doubt not but you have so much sense of the ...
... paper called The Historian . I have read it carefully , and find it written with skill , good sense , modesty , and fire . " You must allow the town is kinder to you than you deserve ; and I doubt not but you have so much sense of the ...
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... paper with a Yorkshire tone and a town leer . ( MR . SPECTATOR , 6 ' York , Feb. 16 . THE privilege you have indulged John Trot has proved of very bad consequence to our illustrious assembly , which , besides the many excel- lent maxims ...
... paper with a Yorkshire tone and a town leer . ( MR . SPECTATOR , 6 ' York , Feb. 16 . THE privilege you have indulged John Trot has proved of very bad consequence to our illustrious assembly , which , besides the many excel- lent maxims ...
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Page 324 - And strait conjunction with this sex : for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd By a far worse ; or, if she love, withheld By parents ; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame ; Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Page 280 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 176 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 312 - Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 415 - The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day...
Page 323 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 214 - They view'd the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, Up from the bottom turn'd by furious winds And surging waves, as mountains to assault Heaven's height, and with the centre mix the pole. Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep peace, Said then th...
Page 40 - To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not; that He no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new worlds, whereof so rife...
Page 250 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 375 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back, all the...