The Spectator, Volumen1George Gregory Smith Scribner, 1898 |
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... proper Conveyance , I should be sure to have it . From this Time his Letters were more cold every Day than other , and as he grew indifferent I grew jealous . This has at last brought me to Town , where I find both the Witnesses of my ...
... proper Conveyance , I should be sure to have it . From this Time his Letters were more cold every Day than other , and as he grew indifferent I grew jealous . This has at last brought me to Town , where I find both the Witnesses of my ...
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... Letter to be placed in a modish State of Indiffer ence between Vice and Virtue , and to be susceptible of either , were there proper Pains taken with her , Had 1712 . Had her Journal been filled with Gallantries , 6 THE SPECTATOR.
... Letter to be placed in a modish State of Indiffer ence between Vice and Virtue , and to be susceptible of either , were there proper Pains taken with her , Had 1712 . Had her Journal been filled with Gallantries , 6 THE SPECTATOR.
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... proper Kind of Worship it was in a particular Manner suitable to our first Parents , who had the Creation fresh upon their Minds , and had not seen the various Dispensations of Providence , nor con- sequently could be acquainted with ...
... proper Kind of Worship it was in a particular Manner suitable to our first Parents , who had the Creation fresh upon their Minds , and had not seen the various Dispensations of Providence , nor con- sequently could be acquainted with ...
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... proper that the Poet could have made use of The Revolt in Heaven is described with great Force of Imagination and a fine Variety of Circumstances , The learned Reader cannot but be pleased with the Poet's Imitation of Homer in the last ...
... proper that the Poet could have made use of The Revolt in Heaven is described with great Force of Imagination and a fine Variety of Circumstances , The learned Reader cannot but be pleased with the Poet's Imitation of Homer in the last ...
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... proper Appurtenances of the Tea - Table are added , they swell the Account higher than one would imagine . I cannot conclude without doing her Justice in one Article ; where her Frugality is so remarkable I must not deny her the Merit ...
... proper Appurtenances of the Tea - Table are added , they swell the Account higher than one would imagine . I cannot conclude without doing her Justice in one Article ; where her Frugality is so remarkable I must not deny her the Merit ...
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Página 21 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 170 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Página 57 - As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in itself, at the sight of a multitude of people who seem pleased with one another, and partake of the same common entertainment.
Página 225 - 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! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Página 126 - 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 73 - Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, ' Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O World...
Página 167 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 235 - When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation, I cannot but look upon it as a constant habitual gratitude to the great Author of nature. An inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all its dispensations. It is a kind of acquiescence in the state wherein we are placed, and a secret approbation of the divine will in his conduct towards man.
Página 97 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Página 196 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.