The Spectator, Volume 6George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... writer of very little importance even in his own day . 1 Epictetus his Morals . Made English from the Greek by George Stanhope ' ( 1694 ) , chap . xxii . The reason given by Epictetus is that the thing which really afflicts your friend ...
... writer of very little importance even in his own day . 1 Epictetus his Morals . Made English from the Greek by George Stanhope ' ( 1694 ) , chap . xxii . The reason given by Epictetus is that the thing which really afflicts your friend ...
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... writer to work himself up , if pos- sible , to the pitch of sorrow which he endeavours to produce in others . There are none therefore who stir up pity so much as those who indite their own sufferings . Grief has a natural eloquence ...
... writer to work himself up , if pos- sible , to the pitch of sorrow which he endeavours to produce in others . There are none therefore who stir up pity so much as those who indite their own sufferings . Grief has a natural eloquence ...
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... writing , and owning you have not done me the honour so much as to open my letter , has in it something very unaccountable , and alarms one that has had thoughts of passing his days with you . But I am born to admire you with all your ...
... writing , and owning you have not done me the honour so much as to open my letter , has in it something very unaccountable , and alarms one that has had thoughts of passing his days with you . But I am born to admire you with all your ...
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... Who can understand his errors ? Cleanse thou me from secret faults . ' If the open professors of impiety deserve the 1 Psalm xix . 12 . utmost application and endeavours of moral writers to recover them 20 No. 399 The SPECTATOR.
... Who can understand his errors ? Cleanse thou me from secret faults . ' If the open professors of impiety deserve the 1 Psalm xix . 12 . utmost application and endeavours of moral writers to recover them 20 No. 399 The SPECTATOR.
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... writers . I would therefore propose the following methods to the consideration of such as would find out their secret faults , and make a true estimate of themselves . In the first place , let them consider well what are the characters ...
... writers . I would therefore propose the following methods to the consideration of such as would find out their secret faults , and make a true estimate of themselves . In the first place , let them consider well what are the characters ...
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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.