The Spectator, Volume 6George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... honour to know you , and a winning condescension to all subordinate to you , made business a pleasure to those who executed it under you , at the same time that it heightened her Majesty's favour to all who had the happiness of having ...
... honour to know you , and a winning condescension to all subordinate to you , made business a pleasure to those who executed it under you , at the same time that it heightened her Majesty's favour to all who had the happiness of having ...
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... honour , good your grace let not any light fancy , or bad counsel of 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 ...
... honour , good your grace let not any light fancy , or bad counsel of 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 ...
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... honour to be known ; she is indeed my relation , and a pretty sort of woman . But your startling manner of writing , and owning you have not done me the honour so much as to open my letter , has in it something very unaccountable , and ...
... honour to be known ; she is indeed my relation , and a pretty sort of woman . But your startling manner of writing , and owning you have not done me the honour so much as to open my letter , has in it something very unaccountable , and ...
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... honour to an human figure , as much as the other ( a tumbler ) vilifies and degrades it . ' Cibber says that Nicolini , by pleasing the eye as well as the ear , filled us with a more 6 cellent words , and , at the same time , 46 No. 405 ...
... honour to an human figure , as much as the other ( a tumbler ) vilifies and degrades it . ' Cibber says that Nicolini , by pleasing the eye as well as the ear , filled us with a more 6 cellent words , and , at the same time , 46 No. 405 ...
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... honour of setting her down , for Sir Roger's servant was gone to call a coach . In the interim the footman re- turned with no coach to be had ; and there appeared nothing to be done but trusting herself with Mr. Honeycomb and his friend ...
... honour of setting her down , for Sir Roger's servant was gone to call a coach . In the interim the footman re- turned with no coach to be had ; and there appeared nothing to be done but trusting herself with Mr. Honeycomb and his friend ...
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Page 336 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth: 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, III.
Page 217 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 336 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. 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; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as...
Page 371 - 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: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 372 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 72 - OUR 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.
Page 73 - 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.
Page 366 - 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 show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 75 - It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.
Page 206 - 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.