The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... vehement and loud in a cause wherein he knows he has not the truth of the question on his side , is a player as to the personated part , but incomparably meaner than he as to the prostitution of himself for hire 12 No. 370 THE SPECTATOR .
... vehement and loud in a cause wherein he knows he has not the truth of the question on his side , is a player as to the personated part , but incomparably meaner than he as to the prostitution of himself for hire 12 No. 370 THE SPECTATOR .
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... meeting every one proposes the cause he has then in hand to the board , upon which each member gives his judgment according to the experience he has met with . If it happens that any one puts a No. 372 . 23 THE SPECTATOR ,
... meeting every one proposes the cause he has then in hand to the board , upon which each member gives his judgment according to the experience he has met with . If it happens that any one puts a No. 372 . 23 THE SPECTATOR ,
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... cause , their manner of drawing out their bills , and , in short , their arguments upon the se- veral ways of abusing their clients , with the ap- plause that is given to him who has done it most artfully , you would before now have ...
... cause , their manner of drawing out their bills , and , in short , their arguments upon the se- veral ways of abusing their clients , with the ap- plause that is given to him who has done it most artfully , you would before now have ...
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... august assembly in the world ; without mo- desty he would have pleaded the cause he had taken upon him , though it had appeared ever so scandalous . From what has been said , it is plain that No. 373 . 27 THE SPECTATOR .
... august assembly in the world ; without mo- desty he would have pleaded the cause he had taken upon him , though it had appeared ever so scandalous . From what has been said , it is plain that No. 373 . 27 THE SPECTATOR .
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... cause of her grief , took this occasion to make her a proposal . It is impossible to express Amanda's confusion when she found his pretensions were not honour- able . She was now deserted of all her hopes , and had no power to speak ...
... cause of her grief , took this occasion to make her a proposal . It is impossible to express Amanda's confusion when she found his pretensions were not honour- able . She was now deserted of all her hopes , and had no power to speak ...
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Seite 48 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Seite 188 - tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and quench my thirst. CREECB. Ouu 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.
Seite 9 - They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Seite 7 - Which he hath sent propitious some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay ; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou. Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence This further consolation yet secure I carry hence ; though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed, By me the promised Seed shall all restore.
Seite 189 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Seite 128 - Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did I at any time so...
Seite 129 - ... mine enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Seite 7 - Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning. High in front...
Seite 206 - Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible, Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush...
Seite 49 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.