The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... very particular manner , My Lord , Your Lordship's most obliged , And most obedient , humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . DEDICATION TO THE SIXTH VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION . vi DEDICATION TO THE FIFTH VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION .
... very particular manner , My Lord , Your Lordship's most obliged , And most obedient , humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . DEDICATION TO THE SIXTH VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION . vi DEDICATION TO THE FIFTH VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION .
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... obliged in honour to conceal ; but that he could show her picture in the lid of his snuff box . The young lady , who felt herself the most sensibly touched by this con- fession , took the first opportunity that offered of snatching his ...
... obliged in honour to conceal ; but that he could show her picture in the lid of his snuff box . The young lady , who felt herself the most sensibly touched by this con- fession , took the first opportunity that offered of snatching his ...
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... obliged and " Most faithful humble servant , " T. B. " Let me know whether you think the next child will love horses as much as Molly does china - ware . " STEELE . T. No. 327. SATURDAY , MARCH 15 , 1711-12 . -Major rerum mihi nascitur ...
... obliged and " Most faithful humble servant , " T. B. " Let me know whether you think the next child will love horses as much as Molly does china - ware . " STEELE . T. No. 327. SATURDAY , MARCH 15 , 1711-12 . -Major rerum mihi nascitur ...
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... oblige others , as well as " Your very humble servant , " JACK LIGHTFOOT . " P. S. My friend will have me acquaint you , that though he would not willingly detract from the merit of that extraordinary strokesman Mr. Sprightly , yet it ...
... oblige others , as well as " Your very humble servant , " JACK LIGHTFOOT . " P. S. My friend will have me acquaint you , that though he would not willingly detract from the merit of that extraordinary strokesman Mr. Sprightly , yet it ...
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... obliged , before I proceed to the publication of this my Essay , to ask your advice ; and hold it absolutely necessary to have your approbation in order to recommend my treatise to the perusal of the parents of such as learn to dance ...
... obliged , before I proceed to the publication of this my Essay , to ask your advice ; and hold it absolutely necessary to have your approbation in order to recommend my treatise to the perusal of the parents of such as learn to dance ...
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Page 100 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 445 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 392 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 37 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 428 - 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.
Page 135 - And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand.
Page 270 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision...
Page 428 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' 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...
Page 269 - 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 271 - ... and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.