The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Volumes 5-61853 |
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... meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings . Discourses of morality , and reflections upon human nature , are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds ...
... meet with any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings . Discourses of morality , and reflections upon human nature , are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds ...
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... meet once a - week in a large upper - chamber , which we hire by the year for that purpose ; our landlord and his fami- ly , who are quiet people , constantly contriving to be abroad on our club night . We are no sooner come together ...
... meet once a - week in a large upper - chamber , which we hire by the year for that purpose ; our landlord and his fami- ly , who are quiet people , constantly contriving to be abroad on our club night . We are no sooner come together ...
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... meet , than to fix our thoughts on the little conveniencies and advan- tages which we enjoy one above another in the way to it . Epictetus makes use of another kind of allu- sion , which is very beautiful , and wonderfully proper to ...
... meet , than to fix our thoughts on the little conveniencies and advan- tages which we enjoy one above another in the way to it . Epictetus makes use of another kind of allu- sion , which is very beautiful , and wonderfully proper to ...
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... meet with some celebrated thought upon it , or a thought of my own ex- pressed in better words , or some similitude for the illustration of my subject . This is what gives birth to the motto of a speculation , which I ra- ther choose to ...
... meet with some celebrated thought upon it , or a thought of my own ex- pressed in better words , or some similitude for the illustration of my subject . This is what gives birth to the motto of a speculation , which I ra- ther choose to ...
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... meet with entertainment in the house ; and I think I was never better pleased than with a plain man's compliment , who upon his friend's telling him that he would like the Spectator much better if he understood the mot- to , replied ...
... meet with entertainment in the house ; and I think I was never better pleased than with a plain man's compliment , who upon his friend's telling him that he would like the Spectator much better if he understood the mot- to , replied ...
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Page 177 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 107 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Page 179 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 181 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Page 185 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 170 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 180 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Page 180 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Page 3 - The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Page 6 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing, to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though, it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...