The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Томове 1–21853 |
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... mind never recovered its former tone . At length he formed the desperate resolution of putting an end to his life . Having filled his pockets with stones on the 4th of May , 1737 , he took a boat at London- bridge , and threw himself ...
... mind never recovered its former tone . At length he formed the desperate resolution of putting an end to his life . Having filled his pockets with stones on the 4th of May , 1737 , he took a boat at London- bridge , and threw himself ...
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... mind , and the integrity of his life , create him followers , as being eloquent or loud advances others . He seldom introduces the subject he speaks upon ; but we are so far gone in years , that he observes when he is among us , an ...
... mind , and the integrity of his life , create him followers , as being eloquent or loud advances others . He seldom introduces the subject he speaks upon ; but we are so far gone in years , that he observes when he is among us , an ...
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... mind em- ployment for the whole night , so that I fell insen- sibly into a kind of methodical dream , which dis- posed all my contemplations into a vision or alle- gory , or what else the reader shall please to call it . Methought I ...
... mind em- ployment for the whole night , so that I fell insen- sibly into a kind of methodical dream , which dis- posed all my contemplations into a vision or alle- gory , or what else the reader shall please to call it . Methought I ...
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... mind of the sun , moon , and earth , in the Rehearsel , that danced together for no other end but to eclipse one another . The reader will easily suppose , by what has been before said , that the lady on the throne would have been ...
... mind of the sun , moon , and earth , in the Rehearsel , that danced together for no other end but to eclipse one another . The reader will easily suppose , by what has been before said , that the lady on the throne would have been ...
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... mind is the ge- neral entertainment of my life : I never enter into the commerce of discourse with any but my par- ticular friends , and not in public even with them . Such a habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections : but ...
... mind is the ge- neral entertainment of my life : I never enter into the commerce of discourse with any but my par- ticular friends , and not in public even with them . Such a habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections : but ...
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Страница 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Страница 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Страница 180 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Страница 258 - ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Страница 262 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Страница 181 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Страница 30 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Страница 260 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Страница 34 - ... both in town and country, a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed: his tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company...
Страница 152 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.