The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... hope you will not omit the mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philo- sophic resignation to his wife Xantippe . This would be a very good office to the world in general , for the hen - peckt are powerful in their quality and ...
... hope you will not omit the mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philo- sophic resignation to his wife Xantippe . This would be a very good office to the world in general , for the hen - peckt are powerful in their quality and ...
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... hope for no relief but from himself ; and yet he that has sense and justice in every thing else , never reflects , that to come home only to sleep off an intemperance , and spend all the time he is there as if it were a punishment ...
... hope for no relief but from himself ; and yet he that has sense and justice in every thing else , never reflects , that to come home only to sleep off an intemperance , and spend all the time he is there as if it were a punishment ...
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... hope that flesh and blood is capable of so strict an alliance , as that a fine woman must go on to improve herself till she is as good and impassive as an angel , only to preserve fidelity to a brute and a satyr . The lady who desires ...
... hope that flesh and blood is capable of so strict an alliance , as that a fine woman must go on to improve herself till she is as good and impassive as an angel , only to preserve fidelity to a brute and a satyr . The lady who desires ...
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... the contrary , the thoughtful man , who perhaps may hope to find something solid , and full of deep reflection , is very often insensibly betrayed into a fit of mirth . In 34 N ° 179 . SPECTATOR . N° 179. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1711. ...
... the contrary , the thoughtful man , who perhaps may hope to find something solid , and full of deep reflection , is very often insensibly betrayed into a fit of mirth . In 34 N ° 179 . SPECTATOR . N° 179. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1711. ...
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... hope you will oblige the world with some reflections upon yawn- ing , as I have seen it practised on a twelfth - night among other Christmas gambols at the house of a very worthy gentleman , who always entertains his tenants at that ...
... hope you will oblige the world with some reflections upon yawn- ing , as I have seen it practised on a twelfth - night among other Christmas gambols at the house of a very worthy gentleman , who always entertains his tenants at that ...
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Página 357 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 29 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 218 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 168 - Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign.
Página 29 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness and it clothed me : My judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Página 233 - Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare.
Página 79 - The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger.
Página 205 - When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for. And...
Página 252 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Página 352 - I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers; but alas! this cry, like the song of the nightingale, is not heard above two months. It would therefore be worth while to consider whether the same air might not in some cases be adapted to other words.