The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Bind 5–61853 |
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Side 3
... CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry , which shows none of its inherent beauties , till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours , makes the surface shine , and discovers every ornamental cloud ...
... CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry , which shows none of its inherent beauties , till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours , makes the surface shine , and discovers every ornamental cloud ...
Side 10
... Mr. Free- man was going to make a softening speech , but I interposed . Look you , madam , I have nothing to say to this matter , but you ought to consider you are now past a chicken : this humour , 10 No. 216 . THE SPECTATOR .
... Mr. Free- man was going to make a softening speech , but I interposed . Look you , madam , I have nothing to say to this matter , but you ought to consider you are now past a chicken : this humour , 10 No. 216 . THE SPECTATOR .
Side 25
... consider the ill consequence of such a match ; you are fifty - five , I twenty - one . You are a man of business , and mightily conversant in arithme- tic , and making calculations ; be pleased therefore to consider what proportion your ...
... consider the ill consequence of such a match ; you are fifty - five , I twenty - one . You are a man of business , and mightily conversant in arithme- tic , and making calculations ; be pleased therefore to consider what proportion your ...
Side 28
... consider , whether in an island where few are content without being thought wits , it will not be a common benefit , that wit as well as labour should be made cheap . ' I am , sir , ' Your humble servant , & c.'t George Villiers ...
... consider , whether in an island where few are content without being thought wits , it will not be a common benefit , that wit as well as labour should be made cheap . ' I am , sir , ' Your humble servant , & c.'t George Villiers ...
Side 30
... consider which of the ancient authors have touched upon the subject that I treat of . By this means I meet with some celebrated thought upon it , or a thought of my own ex- pressed in better words , or some similitude for the ...
... consider which of the ancient authors have touched upon the subject that I treat of . By this means I meet with some celebrated thought upon it , or a thought of my own ex- pressed in better words , or some similitude for the ...
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Side 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...
Side 107 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...