The Spectator, Volume 2J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... Youth within fuch and fuch Districts : I know in particular , Goods ⚫ are not entered as they ought to be at the Custom - house , nor Law - Reports perufed at the Temple ; by reafon of one Beauty who detains the young Merchants too ...
... Youth within fuch and fuch Districts : I know in particular , Goods ⚫ are not entered as they ought to be at the Custom - house , nor Law - Reports perufed at the Temple ; by reafon of one Beauty who detains the young Merchants too ...
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... Youth ; that the drilled him on to five and fifty , and that he verily believes fhe will drop him in his old Age , if the can find her Account in another . I fhall conclude this Narrative with a Letter from honeft S A M. HOPEWELL , a ...
... Youth ; that the drilled him on to five and fifty , and that he verily believes fhe will drop him in his old Age , if the can find her Account in another . I fhall conclude this Narrative with a Letter from honeft S A M. HOPEWELL , a ...
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... Youth who . goes on in a continued Courfe of Voluptuoufnefs , advan- ces by Degrees into a libidinous old Man ; and that the Paffion furvives in the Mind when it is altogether dead in the Body ; nay , that the Defire grows more violent ...
... Youth who . goes on in a continued Courfe of Voluptuoufnefs , advan- ces by Degrees into a libidinous old Man ; and that the Paffion furvives in the Mind when it is altogether dead in the Body ; nay , that the Defire grows more violent ...
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... Youth their Follies , not because they are themfelves paft them , but because they love to continue in them . Thefe Beau- ties rival each other on all Occafions , not that they have always had the fame Lovers , but each has kept up a ...
... Youth their Follies , not because they are themfelves paft them , but because they love to continue in them . Thefe Beau- ties rival each other on all Occafions , not that they have always had the fame Lovers , but each has kept up a ...
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... Youth in his Fever , as fresh as if it were Yefterday . If he wanted any thing , it ⚫ must be given him by Tom : When I let any thing fall through the Grief I was under , he would cry , Do not beat the poor Boy : Give him fome more ...
... Youth in his Fever , as fresh as if it were Yefterday . If he wanted any thing , it ⚫ must be given him by Tom : When I let any thing fall through the Grief I was under , he would cry , Do not beat the poor Boy : Give him fome more ...
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Page 115 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Page 287 - Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation stumbled and fell out of sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them their footing failed and down they sunk.
Page 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 116 - Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Page 95 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as...
Page 287 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Page 97 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon. He then showed us his list of preachers for the whole year, where I saw, with a great deal of pleasure.
Page 286 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but* they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared.
Page 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Page 116 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then...