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... Death of Sir Roger de Coverley 518. Letters on Epitaphs STEELE ...... ADDISON STEELE University Physiognomy ...... ORATOR HENLEY 519. Meditation on animal Life .... ADDISON 520. On the Death of a beloved Wife ...... FRANCHAM 521. On the ...
... Death of Sir Roger de Coverley 518. Letters on Epitaphs STEELE ...... ADDISON STEELE University Physiognomy ...... ORATOR HENLEY 519. Meditation on animal Life .... ADDISON 520. On the Death of a beloved Wife ...... FRANCHAM 521. On the ...
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... death , or to our . defence ? Yes ; our great God never gave one to reign by his permission , but he gave to another also to reign by his grace . All the circumstances of the illustrious life of our prince seem to have conspired to make ...
... death , or to our . defence ? Yes ; our great God never gave one to reign by his permission , but he gave to another also to reign by his grace . All the circumstances of the illustrious life of our prince seem to have conspired to make ...
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... letter , without any alteration or diminution . ' HONOURED SIR , " Knowing that you was my old master's good friend , I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death , which has afflicted the 12 N ° 517 . SPECTATOR .
... letter , without any alteration or diminution . ' HONOURED SIR , " Knowing that you was my old master's good friend , I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death , which has afflicted the 12 N ° 517 . SPECTATOR .
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. melancholy news of his death , which has afflicted the whole country , as well as his poor servants , who loved him , I may say , better than we did our lives . I am afraid he caught his death the ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. melancholy news of his death , which has afflicted the whole country , as well as his poor servants , who loved him , I may say , better than we did our lives . I am afraid he caught his death the ...
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... death , he shook him by the hand , and wished him joy of the estate which was falling to him , desiring him only to make a good use of it and to pay the several legacies , and the gifts of charity , which he told him he had left as quit ...
... death , he shook him by the hand , and wished him joy of the estate which was falling to him , desiring him only to make a good use of it and to pay the several legacies , and the gifts of charity , which he told him he had left as quit ...
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Page 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 128 - 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 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Page 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Page 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Page 245 - 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 128 - 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 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.