The Spectator, Volumes 1-2J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1915 |
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... printed from the copy in the Library of the University of Edinburgh ; that of the sixth volume , which is missing , is supplied from the copy in the British Museum . The whole has been collated with the set of original sheets X PREFACE.
... printed from the copy in the Library of the University of Edinburgh ; that of the sixth volume , which is missing , is supplied from the copy in the British Museum . The whole has been collated with the set of original sheets X PREFACE.
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... whole and entire , without the Loss or Acquisition of a single Field or Meadow , during the Space of six hundred Years . There runs a Story in the Family , that when my Mother was gone with Child of me about three Months , she dreamt ...
... whole and entire , without the Loss or Acquisition of a single Field or Meadow , during the Space of six hundred Years . There runs a Story in the Family , that when my Mother was gone with Child of me about three Months , she dreamt ...
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... whole Life . Whilst I was in this Learned Body I applied myself with so much Diligence to my Studies , that there are very few celebrated Books , either in the Learned or the Modern Tongues , which I am not acquainted with . Upon the ...
... whole Life . Whilst I was in this Learned Body I applied myself with so much Diligence to my Studies , that there are very few celebrated Books , either in the Learned or the Modern Tongues , which I am not acquainted with . Upon the ...
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... whole Scene vanished : In the Room of the frightful Spectres , there now enter'd a second Dance of Apparitions very agreeably matched together , and made up of very amiable Phantoms . The first Pair was Liberty with Monarchy at her ...
... whole Scene vanished : In the Room of the frightful Spectres , there now enter'd a second Dance of Apparitions very agreeably matched together , and made up of very amiable Phantoms . The first Pair was Liberty with Monarchy at her ...
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... whole I resolved for the future to go on in my ordinary Way ; and without too much Fear or Hope about the Business of Reputation , to be very care ful of the Design of my Actions , but very negligent of the Consequences of them . It is ...
... whole I resolved for the future to go on in my ordinary Way ; and without too much Fear or Hope about the Business of Reputation , to be very care ful of the Design of my Actions , but very negligent of the Consequences of them . It is ...
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Page 49 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 154 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 110 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 98 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 128 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 281 - 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.
Page 293 - 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 109 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Page 98 - ... instead of the brave rough English Admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it was impossible for him to...
Page 280 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.