The Spectator, Band 6George Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... tion of a Man's Parts , has the same Success as declining from her Course in the Production of Vegetables , by the Assistance of Art and an hot Bed : We may possibly extort an unwilling Plant , or an untimely Sallad ; but how weak , how ...
... tion of a Man's Parts , has the same Success as declining from her Course in the Production of Vegetables , by the Assistance of Art and an hot Bed : We may possibly extort an unwilling Plant , or an untimely Sallad ; but how weak , how ...
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... tion as it raised our Delight . The Passions that are excited by ordinary Compositions generally flow from such silly and absurd Occasions , that a Man is ashamed to reflect upon them seriously ; but the Fear , the Love , the Sorrow ...
... tion as it raised our Delight . The Passions that are excited by ordinary Compositions generally flow from such silly and absurd Occasions , that a Man is ashamed to reflect upon them seriously ; but the Fear , the Love , the Sorrow ...
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... tion of this would make me very well contented with the Possession only of that Quiet which Cowley calls the Companion of Obscurity ; but who ever has the Muses too for his Companions , can never be idle enough to be uneasie , Thus ...
... tion of this would make me very well contented with the Possession only of that Quiet which Cowley calls the Companion of Obscurity ; but who ever has the Muses too for his Companions , can never be idle enough to be uneasie , Thus ...
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... tion naturally shake the Hearts of the Ignorant , and fill them with a kind of Religious Horror . Nothing is more frequent than to see Women weep and tremble at the Sight of a moving Preacher , though he is placed quite out of their ...
... tion naturally shake the Hearts of the Ignorant , and fill them with a kind of Religious Horror . Nothing is more frequent than to see Women weep and tremble at the Sight of a moving Preacher , though he is placed quite out of their ...
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... tion , Custom of the Country , Reason , and the like Causes , may improve or abate the Strength of them , but still the Seeds remain , which are ever ready to sprout forth upon the least Encouragement , I have heard a Story of a good ...
... tion , Custom of the Country , Reason , and the like Causes , may improve or abate the Strength of them , but still the Seeds remain , which are ever ready to sprout forth upon the least Encouragement , I have heard a Story of a good ...
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Seite 244 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Seite 249 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Seite 55 - There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination. I therefore thought it necessary to fix. and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculations, that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon.
Seite 260 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Seite 271 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Seite 206 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ : Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Seite 105 - Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off...
Seite 153 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Seite 10 - YOUR grace's displeasure, and my imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be mine ancient professed enemy.
Seite 249 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.