The Spectator, Volume 5J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1726 |
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... reason to believe he would cafily be brought to think there was any thing in any ' Woman's Perfon or Character that could ballance the Difadvantage of an unequal Fortune . In the mean time the Son continued his Application to me , and ...
... reason to believe he would cafily be brought to think there was any thing in any ' Woman's Perfon or Character that could ballance the Difadvantage of an unequal Fortune . In the mean time the Son continued his Application to me , and ...
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... Reason I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men ( if you will allow them a place in that Species of Being ) who have lately erected themfelves into a Nocturnal Frater- nity , under the Title ...
... Reason I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect Informations of a Set of Men ( if you will allow them a place in that Species of Being ) who have lately erected themfelves into a Nocturnal Frater- nity , under the Title ...
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... Reasons for my drawing the Action of the Eneid rather from its immediate Beginning in the first Book , than from its remote Beginning in the fecond ; and fhew why I have confidered the facking of Troy as an Episode , according to the ...
... Reasons for my drawing the Action of the Eneid rather from its immediate Beginning in the first Book , than from its remote Beginning in the fecond ; and fhew why I have confidered the facking of Troy as an Episode , according to the ...
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... reason why we may not fup- pose that they would have their Riding - Beards on the fame occafion . X I may give the Moral of this Difcourfe in another Paper . Friday , 1 No 332. Friday , March 21 . Minus aptus 42 N ° 331 The SPECTATOR .
... reason why we may not fup- pose that they would have their Riding - Beards on the fame occafion . X I may give the Moral of this Difcourfe in another Paper . Friday , 1 No 332. Friday , March 21 . Minus aptus 42 N ° 331 The SPECTATOR .
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... Reason . To one who has not at all confidered it , to mention the Force of Reafon on fucha Subject , will appear fantaftical ; but when you have a little attended to it , an Affembly of Men will have quite another view : and they will ...
... Reason . To one who has not at all confidered it , to mention the Force of Reafon on fucha Subject , will appear fantaftical ; but when you have a little attended to it , an Affembly of Men will have quite another view : and they will ...
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Page 60 - ... up the entry in good order, the captain and I went in with him, and seated him betwixt us in the pit. As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in...
Page 131 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
Page 77 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Page 50 - There are indeed so many wonderful strokes of poetry in this book, and such a variety of sublime ideas, that it would have been impossible to have given them a place within the bounds of this paper.
Page 133 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
Page 229 - ... compel us to any thing ; but we will not eat the bread of shame ; and therefore we charge thee not to think of us, but to avoid the snare which is laid for thy virtue. Beware 'of pitying us : it is not so bad as you perhaps have been told.
Page 35 - I'll warrant you,' says Sir Roger; 'you ought to lock up your kings better; they will carry off the body too, if you don't take care.' The glorious names of Henry the Fifth and queen Elizabeth gave the knight great opportunities of shining, and of doing justice to Sir Richard Baker, who...
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 116 - Whilst he is capable of changing, we may be forced to retract our opinions. He may forfeit the esteem we have conceived of him, and some time or other appear to us under a different light from what he does at present. In short, as the life of any man cannot be called happy or unhappy, so neither can it be pronounced vicious, or virtuous, before the conclusion of it. It was upon this...
Page 23 - The morning hymn is written in imitation of one of those psalms where, in the overflowings of gratitude and praise, the psalmist calls not only upon the angels, but upon the most conspicuous parts of the inanimate creation, to join with him in extolling their common Maker. Invocations of this nature fill the mind with glorious ideas of God's works, and awaken that divine enthusiasm, which is so natural to devotion. But if this calling upon the dead parts of nature is at all times a proper kind of...