The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Том 11808 |
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... pleasures on objects which will last no longer than youth and good fortune , we have carefully preserved those Essays , in which our mild moralist gently marks and attacks the little foibles and errors of women , where he earnestly ...
... pleasures on objects which will last no longer than youth and good fortune , we have carefully preserved those Essays , in which our mild moralist gently marks and attacks the little foibles and errors of women , where he earnestly ...
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... or pre- tended to be , very vigilant against this exclusion . The greatness of the difficulty enhanced the pleasure of success . he was successful in that difficult enterprise . The fortress THE LIFE OF ADDISON . xxi.
... or pre- tended to be , very vigilant against this exclusion . The greatness of the difficulty enhanced the pleasure of success . he was successful in that difficult enterprise . The fortress THE LIFE OF ADDISON . xxi.
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... pleasure of the whole chase , without the fatigue of keeping in with the hounds . The hare im- mediately threw them above a mile behind her ; but I was pleased to find , that instead of running straight forwards , or , in hunter's ...
... pleasure of the whole chase , without the fatigue of keeping in with the hounds . The hare im- mediately threw them above a mile behind her ; but I was pleased to find , that instead of running straight forwards , or , in hunter's ...
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... pleasure , which I freely indulged because I was sure it was innocent . If I was under any concern , it was on the account of the poor hare , that was now quite spent , and almost within the reach of her enemies ; when the huntsman ...
... pleasure , which I freely indulged because I was sure it was innocent . If I was under any concern , it was on the account of the poor hare , that was now quite spent , and almost within the reach of her enemies ; when the huntsman ...
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... pleasure , or the fear of want . The former , when it becomes too violent , degenerates into luxury , and the latter , into avarice , as these two principles of action draw different ways . Persius has given us a very humorous account ...
... pleasure , or the fear of want . The former , when it becomes too violent , degenerates into luxury , and the latter , into avarice , as these two principles of action draw different ways . Persius has given us a very humorous account ...
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Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
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Страница 42 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Страница 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Страница 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Страница 118 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Страница 176 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Страница 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Страница 42 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Страница 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Страница 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Страница 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.