The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Corrected from the Originals. parties ; yet persons of every party , sect , and humour , are fond of conforming their taste to yours . You can transfuse your own relish of a poem into all your readers , according to their capacity to ...
Corrected from the Originals. parties ; yet persons of every party , sect , and humour , are fond of conforming their taste to yours . You can transfuse your own relish of a poem into all your readers , according to their capacity to ...
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... person ; but when it is alone , and serves only to gild a crowd of ill qualities , there is no man so much to be avoided as your pleasant fellow . A very pleasant fellow shall turn your good name to a jest , make your character ...
... person ; but when it is alone , and serves only to gild a crowd of ill qualities , there is no man so much to be avoided as your pleasant fellow . A very pleasant fellow shall turn your good name to a jest , make your character ...
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... person he chanced to see was to appearance an old sordid blind man , but , upon his following him from place to place , he at last found , by his own confession , that he was Plutus the god of riches , and that he was just come out of ...
... person he chanced to see was to appearance an old sordid blind man , but , upon his following him from place to place , he at last found , by his own confession , that he was Plutus the god of riches , and that he was just come out of ...
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... person as she in- quired for ; but intimates that he knows her to be of the deities , and desires she would conduct a stranger . Her form from her first appearance manifested she was more than mortal ; but , though she was certainly a ...
... person as she in- quired for ; but intimates that he knows her to be of the deities , and desires she would conduct a stranger . Her form from her first appearance manifested she was more than mortal ; but , though she was certainly a ...
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... person of her sex , assumed a majesty which commanded the highest respect ; and when she turned to me , and saw my face in rapture , she fell into the prettiest smile , and I saw in all her motions that she exulted in her father's ...
... person of her sex , assumed a majesty which commanded the highest respect ; and when she turned to me , and saw my face in rapture , she fell into the prettiest smile , and I saw in all her motions that she exulted in her father's ...
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Page 22 - 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 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment ? that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Page 22 - 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 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Page 378 - 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 378 - 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— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Page 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in 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 idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Page 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.