The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Том 8George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... readers have mistook that passage in your your writings , wherein Sir Roger is reported to have inquired into the private character of the young woman at the tavern . I know you mentioned that circumstance as an instance of the ...
... readers have mistook that passage in your your writings , wherein Sir Roger is reported to have inquired into the private character of the young woman at the tavern . I know you mentioned that circumstance as an instance of the ...
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... readers . I understood from common report , that Mr. Cibber was intro- ducing a French play upon our stage , and thought myself concerned to let the town know what was his , and what foreign * . When I came to the re- hearsal , I found ...
... readers . I understood from common report , that Mr. Cibber was intro- ducing a French play upon our stage , and thought myself concerned to let the town know what was his , and what foreign * . When I came to the re- hearsal , I found ...
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... readers . He added very many particulars , not un- curious concerning the manner of taking an au- dience , and laying wait not only for their superficial applause , but also for insinuating into their affec- tions and passions , by the ...
... readers . He added very many particulars , not un- curious concerning the manner of taking an au- dience , and laying wait not only for their superficial applause , but also for insinuating into their affec- tions and passions , by the ...
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... readers think I am to blame in publishing my own commendations , they will allow I should have deserved their censure as much , had I suppressed the humour in which they are conveyed to me . 6 SIR , I AM often in a private assembly of ...
... readers think I am to blame in publishing my own commendations , they will allow I should have deserved their censure as much , had I suppressed the humour in which they are conveyed to me . 6 SIR , I AM often in a private assembly of ...
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... reader to observe how these three beautiful sentences are formed upon different subjects by the same way of thinking ; but I shall return to the first of them . ' Our goodness being of a comparative and not an absolute nature , there is ...
... reader to observe how these three beautiful sentences are formed upon different subjects by the same way of thinking ; but I shall return to the first of them . ' Our goodness being of a comparative and not an absolute nature , there is ...
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Страница 106 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Страница 182 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Страница 350 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Страница 269 - My dog I was ever well pleased to see •Come wagging his tail to my fair one and me ; And Phoebe was pleased too, and to my dog said, Come hither, poor fellow — and patted his head. But now, when he's fawning, I with a sour look Cry, Sirrah...
Страница 75 - There was a certain lady of a thin airy shape, •who was very active in this solemnity. She carried a magnifying glass in one of her hands, and was clothed in a loose flowing robe, embroidered with several figures of fiends and spectres, that discovered themselves in a thousand chimerical shapes as her garment hovered in the wind.
Страница 173 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Страница 183 - ... the fleets of England. I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature, he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old Fellow of a college, who, when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish : " We are always doing," says he, " something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Страница 80 - ... with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not been left to his own choice, as to the kind of evils which fell to his lot.