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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... look into the bottom of this matter , we shall meet with many observations to confirm us in his opinion . Every one laughs at some body that is in an inferior state of folly to himself . It was formerly the custom for every great house ...
... look into the bottom of this matter , we shall meet with many observations to confirm us in his opinion . Every one laughs at some body that is in an inferior state of folly to himself . It was formerly the custom for every great house ...
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... look upon an angler that had taken a great many shapes of fishes , which lay flouncing up and down by him . I should have told my reader , that this Indian had been formerly married to one of the greatest beauties of his country , by ...
... look upon an angler that had taken a great many shapes of fishes , which lay flouncing up and down by him . I should have told my reader , that this Indian had been formerly married to one of the greatest beauties of his country , by ...
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... looks , her hands , her voice called him over to her ; and at the same time seemed to tell him that the river was un- passable . Who can describe the passion made up of joy , sorrow , love , desire , astonishment , that rose in the ...
... looks , her hands , her voice called him over to her ; and at the same time seemed to tell him that the river was un- passable . Who can describe the passion made up of joy , sorrow , love , desire , astonishment , that rose in the ...
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... look upon the principle of gravitation in bodies , which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies them- selves , nor from any laws of mechanism , but , accord- ing to the best notions of the greatest ...
... look upon the principle of gravitation in bodies , which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies them- selves , nor from any laws of mechanism , but , accord- ing to the best notions of the greatest ...
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... capable of furnishing the world with diversions of this nature ; and yet if we look into the productions of several writers , who set up for men of humour , what wild irregular fancies , what 30 TRUE AND FALSE HUMOUR . True and false ...
... capable of furnishing the world with diversions of this nature ; and yet if we look into the productions of several writers , who set up for men of humour , what wild irregular fancies , what 30 TRUE AND FALSE HUMOUR . True and false ...
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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.