The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volume 2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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... fince there is fo little credit to be given to them . When I go to fee the king's fcribe , I am generally told that he is not at home , though per- haps I faw him go into his house almoft the very mo- ment before . Thou wouldeft fancy ...
... fince there is fo little credit to be given to them . When I go to fee the king's fcribe , I am generally told that he is not at home , though per- haps I faw him go into his house almoft the very mo- ment before . Thou wouldeft fancy ...
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... fince it was a nation , I mean the year of Blenheim , I had a copy of a letter fent me out of the country , which v was written from a young gentle- man in the army to his father , a man of good eftate and plain fenfe : As the letter ...
... fince it was a nation , I mean the year of Blenheim , I had a copy of a letter fent me out of the country , which v was written from a young gentle- man in the army to his father , a man of good eftate and plain fenfe : As the letter ...
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... fince the creation of the world before . If you read the tragedies of the last age , you find the artful men , and perfons of intrigue ,. are advanced very far in years , and beyond the pleaf- ures and fallies of youth ; but now Will ...
... fince the creation of the world before . If you read the tragedies of the last age , you find the artful men , and perfons of intrigue ,. are advanced very far in years , and beyond the pleaf- ures and fallies of youth ; but now Will ...
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... fince the proper and genuine motives to these and the like great actions , would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but fmall improvements in the world , were there not fome common principle of ac- tion working equally with ...
... fince the proper and genuine motives to these and the like great actions , would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but fmall improvements in the world , were there not fome common principle of ac- tion working equally with ...
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... fince moft men have fo much either of ill - nature , or of wariness , as not to gratify or footh the vanity of the ambitious man , and fince this very thirft after fame naturally be- trays him into fuch indecencies as are a leffening to ...
... fince moft men have fo much either of ill - nature , or of wariness , as not to gratify or footh the vanity of the ambitious man , and fince this very thirft after fame naturally be- trays him into fuch indecencies as are a leffening to ...
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Page 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 233 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Page 146 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 232 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Page 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Page 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Page 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.