The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Volúmenes7-81853 |
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... young girl is reduced to sighs , dreams and tears , and languishes away her life for a careless coxcomb , who looks astonished , and wonders at such an effect from what in him was all but common civility . Thus you have treated the men ...
... young girl is reduced to sighs , dreams and tears , and languishes away her life for a careless coxcomb , who looks astonished , and wonders at such an effect from what in him was all but common civility . Thus you have treated the men ...
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... young women . Upon my taking no- tice of it to a young gentleman , who is often in my company , he told me smiling , I was in the Inquisition . You may believe I was not a little startled at what he meant , and more so when he asked me ...
... young women . Upon my taking no- tice of it to a young gentleman , who is often in my company , he told me smiling , I was in the Inquisition . You may believe I was not a little startled at what he meant , and more so when he asked me ...
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... young lady who is to have me ; which I enclose to you . MADAM , This is to let you know , that you are to be married to a beau that comes out on Thursday , six in the evening . Be at the park . You can not but know a virgin fop ; they ...
... young lady who is to have me ; which I enclose to you . MADAM , This is to let you know , that you are to be married to a beau that comes out on Thursday , six in the evening . Be at the park . You can not but know a virgin fop ; they ...
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... young fop of the town . The way is , to make all places uneasy to him but the scenes in which they have allotted him to act . His brother huntsmen , bottle companions , his fraternity of fops , shall be brought into the conspiracy ...
... young fop of the town . The way is , to make all places uneasy to him but the scenes in which they have allotted him to act . His brother huntsmen , bottle companions , his fraternity of fops , shall be brought into the conspiracy ...
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... young , of a suita- ble humour , or the quite contrary , and that it is impossible they can ever do other than wrangle from June to January , every body tells him all this is spleen , and he must have a wife ; while all the members of ...
... young , of a suita- ble humour , or the quite contrary , and that it is impossible they can ever do other than wrangle from June to January , every body tells him all this is spleen , and he must have a wife ; while all the members of ...
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acquaintance action Adam Adam and Eve ADDISON Æneas Æneid agreeable angels appear APRIL 24 Aurengzebe bagnio beautiful behaviour behold Callisthenes character cheerfulness circumstances colours consider creature Cynthio dæmon daugh death delight discourse DRYDEN earth endeavour entertainment eyes fancy genius gentleman give grace hand happy heart heaven Homer honour humble servant ideas Iliad imagination innocence Jupiter kind lady letter live look looking-glass mankind manner Menippus Milton mind Mohocks nature never night obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Paradise Lost particular passage passion Paul Lorrain person pleased pleasure poem poet poetry proper racter reader reason received says sight Sir Roger soul speak SPECTATOR spirit STEELE take notice tell thee thing thou thought tion told town ture Turnus VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words writ writing yard land young
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Página 46 - 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.
Página 31 - Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 193 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 196 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Página 246 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone ' Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Página 7 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 152 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Página 46 - 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 180 - Should GOD create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart ; no, no, I feel The link of nature draw me ; flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Página 47 - 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! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th...