The Spectator, Volume 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... expired in my arms , and in my distraction I thought I saw her bosom still heave . There was certainly life yet still left . I cried , she just now spoke to me . But , alas ! I grew giddy , and all 36 No. 520 . SPECTATOR .
... expired in my arms , and in my distraction I thought I saw her bosom still heave . There was certainly life yet still left . I cried , she just now spoke to me . But , alas ! I grew giddy , and all 36 No. 520 . SPECTATOR .
Page 37
... thoughts and actions . Every thing which is false , vicious , or unworthy , is des- picable to him , though all the world should ap- prove it . At the same time he has the most live- ly sensibility in all enjoyments and sufferings which ...
... thoughts and actions . Every thing which is false , vicious , or unworthy , is des- picable to him , though all the world should ap- prove it . At the same time he has the most live- ly sensibility in all enjoyments and sufferings which ...
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... thoughts , by reflecting upon the persons most sus- ceptible of the sort of sorrow I have spoken of ; and I dare say you will find upon examination that they are the wisest and the bravest of man- kind who are the most capable of it ...
... thoughts , by reflecting upon the persons most sus- ceptible of the sort of sorrow I have spoken of ; and I dare say you will find upon examination that they are the wisest and the bravest of man- kind who are the most capable of it ...
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... thought , whether upon business or amusement , with much tranquillity ; I say inattention , because a late act of parliament * has secured all party - liars from the penalty of a wager , and consequently made it unprofitable to attend ...
... thought , whether upon business or amusement , with much tranquillity ; I say inattention , because a late act of parliament * has secured all party - liars from the penalty of a wager , and consequently made it unprofitable to attend ...
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... thought is beautiful which is not just ; and no thought can be just which is not founded in truth , or at least in that which passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen mythology is not only excusable , but graceful ...
... thought is beautiful which is not just ; and no thought can be just which is not founded in truth , or at least in that which passes for such . In mock heroic poems the use of the heathen mythology is not only excusable , but graceful ...
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Page 139 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 24 - ... yet come to my knowledge, and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church ; for he was heard to say some time ago, that, if he lived two years longer, Coverley Church should have a steeple to it.
Page 254 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 134 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Page 251 - I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us : in short, whilst I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself bore amidst the immensity of God's works.
Page 139 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep...
Page 254 - ... being, whether material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him...
Page 223 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered •with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes, as her garments hovered in the wind.
Page 88 - ... ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the Supreme Being, we enlarge every one of these with our own idea of infinity ; and so putting them together make our complex idea of God.
Page 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.