The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 4J. Crissy, 1824 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... acquaint- ance made them still discover new beauties in each other , and by degrees raised in them that mutual passion which had an influence on their following lives . It unfortunately happened , that in the midst of this intercourse ...
... acquaint- ance made them still discover new beauties in each other , and by degrees raised in them that mutual passion which had an influence on their following lives . It unfortunately happened , that in the midst of this intercourse ...
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... shook under him . Constantia , who thought the good man was thus moved by his compassion towards her , and by the horror of her guilt , proceeded with the utmost contrition to acquaint him with that vow 16 No. 164 . THE SPECTATOR .
... shook under him . Constantia , who thought the good man was thus moved by his compassion towards her , and by the horror of her guilt , proceeded with the utmost contrition to acquaint him with that vow 16 No. 164 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... acquaint him with that vow of virginity in which she was going to engage herself , as the proper atonement for her sins , and the only sacrifice that she could make to the memory of Theodosius . The father , who by this time had pretty ...
... acquaint him with that vow of virginity in which she was going to engage herself , as the proper atonement for her sins , and the only sacrifice that she could make to the memory of Theodosius . The father , who by this time had pretty ...
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... acquaint you that Theo- dosius , whose death sits so heavy upon your thoughts , is still alive ; and that the father to whom you have confessed yourself was once that Theodosius whom you so much lament . The love which we have had for ...
... acquaint you that Theo- dosius , whose death sits so heavy upon your thoughts , is still alive ; and that the father to whom you have confessed yourself was once that Theodosius whom you so much lament . The love which we have had for ...
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... acquaintance had ever been at the pains of read- ing it , or that any body after his death would ever inquire after it . The dying man had still so much the frailty of an author in him , as to be cut to the heart with these consolations ...
... acquaintance had ever been at the pains of read- ing it , or that any body after his death would ever inquire after it . The dying man had still so much the frailty of an author in him , as to be cut to the heart with these consolations ...
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Page 86 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 7 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 86 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 246 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 153 - The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Page 87 - Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 244 - ... of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay, we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
Page 169 - If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them ; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them ; if exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes the circulation of the blood, temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigour ; if exercise dissipates a growing distemper, temperance starves it. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance.
Page 249 - Thus Aristotle's soul, of old that was, May now be damn'd to animate an ass ; Or in this very house, for ought we know, Is doing painful penance in some beau.
Page 181 - Nay, should you be pinched in your argument, you may make your retreat with a very good grace. You were never positive, and are now glad to be better informed.