The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Bind 7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Side 6
... kind so naturally give into as pride , nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises . It is to be found in all habits and complexions . Is it not a question , whether it does more harm or good in the world ; and if ...
... kind so naturally give into as pride , nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises . It is to be found in all habits and complexions . Is it not a question , whether it does more harm or good in the world ; and if ...
Side 10
... kind of vision . I was , methought , replaced in my study , and seated in my elbow chair , where I had indulged the foregoing speculations with my lamp burning by me as usual . Whilst I was here meditating on several subjects of ...
... kind of vision . I was , methought , replaced in my study , and seated in my elbow chair , where I had indulged the foregoing speculations with my lamp burning by me as usual . Whilst I was here meditating on several subjects of ...
Side 14
... kind is a beautiful saying in Theognis ; Vice is covered by wealth , and virtue by poverty ; or , to give it in the verbal translation , Among men there are some who have their vices con- cealed by wealth , and others who have their ...
... kind is a beautiful saying in Theognis ; Vice is covered by wealth , and virtue by poverty ; or , to give it in the verbal translation , Among men there are some who have their vices con- cealed by wealth , and others who have their ...
Side 16
... kind of comparison between wealth and poverty . Chremylus , who was an old and a good man , and withal exceeding poor , being desirous to leave some riches to his son , consults the oracle of Apollo upon the subject . The oracle bids ...
... kind of comparison between wealth and poverty . Chremylus , who was an old and a good man , and withal exceeding poor , being desirous to leave some riches to his son , consults the oracle of Apollo upon the subject . The oracle bids ...
Side 21
... kind of justification to our folly . In our retirements every thing disposes us to be serious . In courts and cities we are entertained with the works of men ; in the country with those of God . One is the province of art , the other of ...
... kind of justification to our folly . In our retirements every thing disposes us to be serious . In courts and cities we are entertained with the works of men ; in the country with those of God . One is the province of art , the other of ...
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Side 22 - 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.
Side 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that 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...
Side 22 - 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...
Side 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Side 378 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Side 378 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Side 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Side 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Side 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration; of knowledge and power; of pleasure and happiness; and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have, than to be without; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the supreme being, we enlarge every one of these with our idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Side 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.