The Spectator, Volumen5Tonson, 1739 |
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... reason to believe he would eafily be brought to think there was any thing in any • Woman's Perfon or Character that could balance the Difadvantage of an unequal Fortune . In the mean time ⚫ the Son continued his Application to me , and ...
... reason to believe he would eafily be brought to think there was any thing in any • Woman's Perfon or Character that could balance the Difadvantage of an unequal Fortune . In the mean time ⚫ the Son continued his Application to me , and ...
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... Reason . MY following Correfpondent , who calls herself Cla- rinda , is fuch a Journalist as I require : She feems by her Letter to be placed in a modifh State of Indifference be- tween Vice and Virtue , and to be fufceptible of either ...
... Reason . MY following Correfpondent , who calls herself Cla- rinda , is fuch a Journalist as I require : She feems by her Letter to be placed in a modifh State of Indifference be- tween Vice and Virtue , and to be fufceptible of either ...
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... Reason I could not forbear communicating to · you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men ( if you ⚫ will allow them a place in that Species of Being ) who ⚫ have lately erected themselves into a Nocturnal Frater- nity under the ...
... Reason I could not forbear communicating to · you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men ( if you ⚫ will allow them a place in that Species of Being ) who ⚫ have lately erected themselves into a Nocturnal Frater- nity under the ...
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... Reason and Argument , you'd fpeedily afford us your Affiftance . This exceeds the Grievance of Pin - money , and I think in every Settlement there ought to be a Clause inferted , that the Father fhould be anfwerable for the Longings of ...
... Reason and Argument , you'd fpeedily afford us your Affiftance . This exceeds the Grievance of Pin - money , and I think in every Settlement there ought to be a Clause inferted , that the Father fhould be anfwerable for the Longings of ...
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... reason of it , when after fome time he pointed to the Figure , and asked me if I did not think that our Forefathers looked much wifer in their Beards than we do without them . For my part , fays he , when I am walking in my Gallery in ...
... reason of it , when after fome time he pointed to the Figure , and asked me if I did not think that our Forefathers looked much wifer in their Beards than we do without them . For my part , fays he , when I am walking in my Gallery in ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Affurance againſt agreeable alfo Angels arife Aurengzebe Bagnio beautiful becauſe beft Behaviour beſt chearful Chearfulneſs Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation defcribes Defcription Defign defire Difcourfe faid fame fays fecond feems felf felves feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeak Friend ftill fuch Gentleman give greateſt Happineſs Heaven himſelf Homer Honour Houſe humble Servant Imagination Inftance juft Jupiter Lady laft laſt lefs live loft look Love Mafter Mankind manner Menippus Milton Mind modeft moft moſt muft muſt Nature never Night obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon pleafing pleaſed Pleaſure Poem Poet prefent publick racter radife raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reft reprefented rife ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir ROGER ſpeak SPECTATOR Spirit tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thro tion uſe Virg Virtue whofe whole World
Pasajes populares
Página 244 - Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.
Página 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Página 80 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Página 232 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Página 26 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. " Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field : let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.
Página 155 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Página 132 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Página 29 - I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn, and so conformable to the notions which are given of them in scripture, as this in Milton. After having...
Página 20 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Página 79 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.