The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Volúmenes5-61853 |
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... short , sir , it is impossible to give you a true notion of our sport , unless you would come one night amongst us ; and though it be directly against the rules of our society to admit a male visitant , we repose so much confidence in ...
... short , sir , it is impossible to give you a true notion of our sport , unless you would come one night amongst us ; and though it be directly against the rules of our society to admit a male visitant , we repose so much confidence in ...
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... short , sir , I begin to tremble whenever I see her about to speak or move . As she does not want sense , if she takes these hints , I am happy ; if not , I am more than afraid , that these things , which shock me even in the behaviour ...
... short , sir , I begin to tremble whenever I see her about to speak or move . As she does not want sense , if she takes these hints , I am happy ; if not , I am more than afraid , that these things , which shock me even in the behaviour ...
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... short - lived to stand up in competition with glory , which is everlasting . Reputation , which is the portion of every man who would live with the elegant and knowing part of mankind , is as stable as glory , if it be as well founded ...
... short - lived to stand up in competition with glory , which is everlasting . Reputation , which is the portion of every man who would live with the elegant and knowing part of mankind , is as stable as glory , if it be as well founded ...
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... short a space of time he had deserved it ; and was not so much led to an osten- tation of his art as of his despatch . -Accipe , si vis , Accipiam tabulas ; detur nobis locus , hora , Custodes : videamus uter plus scribere possit . Hor ...
... short a space of time he had deserved it ; and was not so much led to an osten- tation of his art as of his despatch . -Accipe , si vis , Accipiam tabulas ; detur nobis locus , hora , Custodes : videamus uter plus scribere possit . Hor ...
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... short problem , and contrived ta- bles by which any one , without knowing a word of grammar or sense , may , to his great comfort , be able to compose , or rather to erect , Latin verses . His tables are a kind of poetical loga- rithms ...
... short problem , and contrived ta- bles by which any one , without knowing a word of grammar or sense , may , to his great comfort , be able to compose , or rather to erect , Latin verses . His tables are a kind of poetical loga- rithms ...
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Página 177 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 107 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Página 179 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 181 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Página 185 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Página 170 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 180 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Página 180 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Página 3 - The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Página 6 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing, to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though, it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...