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... easy assurance , and his little airs of superiority . Yet of one or two of his letters the dialect is not so far antiquated but that we can still relish their racy flavour ; b of these the reader will find one or two specimens.
... easy assurance , and his little airs of superiority . Yet of one or two of his letters the dialect is not so far antiquated but that we can still relish their racy flavour ; b of these the reader will find one or two specimens.
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Joseph Addison Thomas Arnold. of these the reader will find one or two specimens in the present selection . ' The plan of the Spectator , so far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that compose ...
Joseph Addison Thomas Arnold. of these the reader will find one or two specimens in the present selection . ' The plan of the Spectator , so far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that compose ...
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... reader on the whole by its own merits , it will be vain to think of overcoming his repugnance to it by an elaborate argument . No one can feel a more unfeigned reluctance than the present editor to disturb the method and form in which ...
... reader on the whole by its own merits , it will be vain to think of overcoming his repugnance to it by an elaborate argument . No one can feel a more unfeigned reluctance than the present editor to disturb the method and form in which ...
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... reader's mind to the reverential observance of the following day . To the Fifth Part I have assigned a selection from those very numerous papers on manners , which , in the Spectator , as pre- viously in the Tatler , were the fruit of ...
... reader's mind to the reverential observance of the following day . To the Fifth Part I have assigned a selection from those very numerous papers on manners , which , in the Spectator , as pre- viously in the Tatler , were the fruit of ...
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... reader to learn that , whereas he claims that by taking the readings in brackets at the foot of his page , ' the text becomes throughout that of the Spectator as it first came wet from the press to English breakfast - tables , ' a ...
... reader to learn that , whereas he claims that by taking the readings in brackets at the foot of his page , ' the text becomes throughout that of the Spectator as it first came wet from the press to English breakfast - tables , ' a ...
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Страница 210 - 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 403 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
Страница 470 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts -with joy.
Страница 468 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Страница 12 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, 20 Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
Страница 403 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Страница 471 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Страница 117 - 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. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the spice-islands, our hot-beds; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese...
Страница 37 - Mr. such an one, if he pleased, might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river. My friend Sir Roger heard them both upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
Страница 20 - found me out this gentleman, who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and though he does...