The Spectator, Volume 6George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... thought , the unnatural wit , and inartificial structure of his dramas . I am , SIR , Your very humble Servant , PETER DE QUIR . ' denied the Sacrament , did not suffer himself to be driven out of the Church of England till 1747. At ...
... thought , the unnatural wit , and inartificial structure of his dramas . I am , SIR , Your very humble Servant , PETER DE QUIR . ' denied the Sacrament , did not suffer himself to be driven out of the Church of England till 1747. At ...
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... thought thereof pre- ceded . And to speak a truth , never prince had wife more loyal in all duty and in all true affection than you have ever found in Ann Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself , if ...
... thought thereof pre- ceded . And to speak a truth , never prince had wife more loyal in all duty and in all true affection than you have ever found in Ann Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself , if ...
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... thought , he saw Robin the porter , who waits at Will's Coffee - House , passing by . Robin , you must know , is the best man in town for carry- ing a billet ; the fellow has a thin body , swift step , demure looks , sufficient sense ...
... thought , he saw Robin the porter , who waits at Will's Coffee - House , passing by . Robin , you must know , is the best man in town for carry- ing a billet ; the fellow has a thin body , swift step , demure looks , sufficient sense ...
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... thought fit to make use of , and gave him orders to wait before Flavia's door , and if she called him to her , and asked whether it was Cynthio who passed by , he should at first be loth to own it was , but upon importunity confess it ...
... thought fit to make use of , and gave him orders to wait before Flavia's door , and if she called him to her , and asked whether it was Cynthio who passed by , he should at first be loth to own it was , but upon importunity confess it ...
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... thoughts of passing his days with you . But I am born to admire you with all your little imperfections . CYNTHIO . ' Robin run back , and brought for answer : - ' EXACT sir , that are at Will's Coffee - House six minutes after three ...
... thoughts of passing his days with you . But I am born to admire you with all your little imperfections . CYNTHIO . ' Robin run back , and brought for answer : - ' EXACT sir , that are at Will's Coffee - House six minutes after three ...
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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.