The Spectator, Volume 5Tonson, 1739 |
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... paffed my Time in a refigned Expectation of bet- ter Days . Be pleafed to take notice , that within four Months after I left my Husband I was delivered of a Daughter , who died within few Hours after her Birth . This Accident , and the ...
... paffed my Time in a refigned Expectation of bet- ter Days . Be pleafed to take notice , that within four Months after I left my Husband I was delivered of a Daughter , who died within few Hours after her Birth . This Accident , and the ...
Page 9
... paffed for a Widow , wondered I could be fo fhy and strange , as they called it , to the Squire ; and ˇ were bribed by him to admit him whenever he thought ' fit . I happened to be fitting in a little Parlour which ⚫ belonged to my own ...
... paffed for a Widow , wondered I could be fo fhy and strange , as they called it , to the Squire ; and ˇ were bribed by him to admit him whenever he thought ' fit . I happened to be fitting in a little Parlour which ⚫ belonged to my own ...
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... paffed by in his new Liveries . From Four to Six . Dreffed , paid a Vifit to old Lady Blithe and her Sifter , having before heard they were gone out of Town that Day . From Six to Eleven . At Baffet . Mem . Never fet again upon the Ace ...
... paffed by in his new Liveries . From Four to Six . Dreffed , paid a Vifit to old Lady Blithe and her Sifter , having before heard they were gone out of Town that Day . From Six to Eleven . At Baffet . Mem . Never fet again upon the Ace ...
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... Reign of King James the First . DURING the Civil Wars there appeared one , which makes too great a Figure in Story to be paffed over in Si- lence : 1 lence ; I mean that of the redoubted Hudibras 44 NŽ 331 . The SPECTATOR .
... Reign of King James the First . DURING the Civil Wars there appeared one , which makes too great a Figure in Story to be paffed over in Si- lence : 1 lence ; I mean that of the redoubted Hudibras 44 NŽ 331 . The SPECTATOR .
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... paffed at a Vifit laft Night , it will ferve as an Inftance that the • Sexes are equally inclined to Defamation , with equal Malice , with equal Impotence . Jack Triplett came into my Lady Airy's about Eight of the Clock . You know the ...
... paffed at a Vifit laft Night , it will ferve as an Inftance that the • Sexes are equally inclined to Defamation , with equal Malice , with equal Impotence . Jack Triplett came into my Lady Airy's about Eight of the Clock . You know the ...
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Page 244 - Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.
Page 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 80 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Page 232 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Page 26 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. " Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field : let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.
Page 155 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Page 132 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Page 29 - I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn, and so conformable to the notions which are given of them in scripture, as this in Milton. After having...
Page 20 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Page 79 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.