The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Bände 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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... Marriage 262 - The Spectator's Success - Caution in Writing - announces his Criticism on Milton 263 Letters on the relative Duties of Pa- rents and Children - between a Mo- ther and Son Steele 264 On living in a particular Way - Charac ...
... Marriage 262 - The Spectator's Success - Caution in Writing - announces his Criticism on Milton 263 Letters on the relative Duties of Pa- rents and Children - between a Mo- ther and Son Steele 264 On living in a particular Way - Charac ...
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... Marriage - excessive Fondness 491 Story of Rhynsault and Sapphira 492 Advantages of Levity over grave Be haviour in young Ladies 493 On giving false Characters of Servants -Letter from Horace to Claudius Nero 494 On Religious Melancholy ...
... Marriage - excessive Fondness 491 Story of Rhynsault and Sapphira 492 Advantages of Levity over grave Be haviour in young Ladies 493 On giving false Characters of Servants -Letter from Horace to Claudius Nero 494 On Religious Melancholy ...
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... Marriage 523 Poetry too often mixed with Mythology -Edict on that Subject Visions of worldly and heavenly Wisdom Dunlop and Montgomery 525 Success of the Spectators - on Marriage -Letter of Pliny to Hispulla 526 On Templars turning ...
... Marriage 523 Poetry too often mixed with Mythology -Edict on that Subject Visions of worldly and heavenly Wisdom Dunlop and Montgomery 525 Success of the Spectators - on Marriage -Letter of Pliny to Hispulla 526 On Templars turning ...
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... marriage , and widowhood . When it is a woman's day , in my works , I shall en- deavour at a style and air suitable to their tion , at the inmost thoughts and reflections | perhaps raised in me uncommon reflec- of all whom I behold . It ...
... marriage , and widowhood . When it is a woman's day , in my works , I shall en- deavour at a style and air suitable to their tion , at the inmost thoughts and reflections | perhaps raised in me uncommon reflec- of all whom I behold . It ...
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... marriage , gives a place to his mistress's which I have made upon the subject with arms in his own coat . This I take to have which I am now entertaining you , namely , given rise to many of those absurdities that I can give a shrewd ...
... marriage , gives a place to his mistress's which I have made upon the subject with arms in his own coat . This I take to have which I am now entertaining you , namely , given rise to many of those absurdities that I can give a shrewd ...
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Seite 236 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
Seite 236 - But tell me farther,' said he, ' what thou discoverest on it.' ' I see multitudes of people passing over it,' said I, ' and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it : and upon...
Seite 53 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Seite 172 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Seite 237 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it." I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Seite 236 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains. I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and, passing from one thought to another,
Seite 164 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with ; on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Seite 165 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he out-lives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and, though he does not know I have taken...
Seite 437 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Seite 264 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...