The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, 1. köide1808 |
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... Common Prayer . Tickell . 110 Disgrace of Spies and of their Patrons . Addison . 113 Display of various Characters in a Vision . Same . 117 Gloomy Presages ridiculed ........... The Same . 120 An absent Man . .Budgell . 124 For the ...
... Common Prayer . Tickell . 110 Disgrace of Spies and of their Patrons . Addison . 113 Display of various Characters in a Vision . Same . 117 Gloomy Presages ridiculed ........... The Same . 120 An absent Man . .Budgell . 124 For the ...
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... common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , * Among the Tatlers of Addison , the most cele- brated are : -The distinguishing Characters of Men and Women ; -The Distress of the new Writers ...
... common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , * Among the Tatlers of Addison , the most cele- brated are : -The distinguishing Characters of Men and Women ; -The Distress of the new Writers ...
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... common thoughts , which go off very well in the lump . At the same time , notwithstanding some papers may be made up of broken hints and irregular sketches , it is often expected that every sheet should be a kind of treatise , and make ...
... common thoughts , which go off very well in the lump . At the same time , notwithstanding some papers may be made up of broken hints and irregular sketches , it is often expected that every sheet should be a kind of treatise , and make ...
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Spectator The rev Francis Prevost. common prints would be of great use were they thus calculated to diffuse good sense throngh the bulk of a people , to clear up their understandings , animate their minds with virtue , dissipate the ...
Spectator The rev Francis Prevost. common prints would be of great use were they thus calculated to diffuse good sense throngh the bulk of a people , to clear up their understandings , animate their minds with virtue , dissipate the ...
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... common mass of matter , and his soul retired into the world of spirits . Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind , which are delivered down from generation to genera- tion , as presents to the posterity of those who ...
... common mass of matter , and his soul retired into the world of spirits . Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind , which are delivered down from generation to genera- tion , as presents to the posterity of those who ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.