The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... desire you to be speedy , if you have compassion for innocence exposed to infamy . OCTAVIA . ' T. No . No. 323. Tuesday , March 11 , 1712 THE [ ADDISON . -Modo vir , modo femina . — VIRG.1 ( HE journal with which I presented my reader ...
... desire you to be speedy , if you have compassion for innocence exposed to infamy . OCTAVIA . ' T. No . No. 323. Tuesday , March 11 , 1712 THE [ ADDISON . -Modo vir , modo femina . — VIRG.1 ( HE journal with which I presented my reader ...
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... desire to become your servant . And I am the more bold now to write to your sweet self , because I am now my own man , and may match where I please ; for my father is taken away , and now I am come to my living , which is ten yard ...
... desire to become your servant . And I am the more bold now to write to your sweet self , because I am now my own man , and may match where I please ; for my father is taken away , and now I am come to my living , which is ten yard ...
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... desire your thoughts , whether there may not also be some moral couched under that place in the same book where the poet lets us know that the first woman , immediately after her creation , ran to a looking - glass , and became so ...
... desire your thoughts , whether there may not also be some moral couched under that place in the same book where the poet lets us know that the first woman , immediately after her creation , ran to a looking - glass , and became so ...
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... desire , Had not a voice thus warned me , " What thou seest , What there thou seest , fair creature , is thyself , With thee it came and goes : but follow me , And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming , and thy soft ...
... desire , Had not a voice thus warned me , " What thou seest , What there thou seest , fair creature , is thyself , With thee it came and goes : but follow me , And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming , and thy soft ...
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... desire of you is , to promote a project I have set on foot , and upon which I have writ to some of my friends ; and that is , that care may be taken to secure our daughters by law as well as our deer ; and that some honest gentleman of ...
... desire of you is , to promote a project I have set on foot , and upon which I have writ to some of my friends ; and that is , that care may be taken to secure our daughters by law as well as our deer ; and that some honest gentleman of ...
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Page 132 - Perceiving, where she sat retired in sight, With lowliness majestic from her seat, And grace that won who saw to wish her stay, Rose, and went forth among her fruits and flowers, To visit how they prospered, bud and bloom, Her nursery ; they at her coming sprung, And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.
Page 306 - Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs, By day o'ersees them, and by night protects, The tender lambs he raises in his arms, Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom warms ; Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage, The promised Father of the future age.
Page 21 - Pure as the expanse of Heav'n. I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me. I started back; It started back: but pleased I soon returned; Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Page 167 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 306 - Then palaces shall rise : the joyful son Shall finish what his short-lived sire begun ; Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield, And the same hand that sow'd shall reap the field. The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds, to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear.
Page 317 - Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 307 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day...
Page 231 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death! Must I thus leave thee$ Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 305 - From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Page 266 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.