The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Band 2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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... if he were the most happy creature in the world , I am tranfported with admiration . Sure- ly never did fuch a philofophic foul inhabit fuch a beauteous form ! For beauty is often made a privi- 8 BEAUTIES OF THE SPECTATORS ,
... if he were the most happy creature in the world , I am tranfported with admiration . Sure- ly never did fuch a philofophic foul inhabit fuch a beauteous form ! For beauty is often made a privi- 8 BEAUTIES OF THE SPECTATORS ,
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... foul to fuch actions as are apt to procure honor and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may difcover farther ends of Proviac . e in implanting this paffion in mankind . It was neceffary for the world ...
... foul to fuch actions as are apt to procure honor and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may difcover farther ends of Proviac . e in implanting this paffion in mankind . It was neceffary for the world ...
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... foul looks down with a generous neglect on the cenfures and applaufes of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noife and ftrife of tongues . Accordingly we find in ourfelves a fecret awe and veneration for the charac- ter ...
... foul looks down with a generous neglect on the cenfures and applaufes of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noife and ftrife of tongues . Accordingly we find in ourfelves a fecret awe and veneration for the charac- ter ...
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... foul , it in- flames the mind , and puts it into a violent hurry of to't : Itis ftill reaching after an empty , imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or fatisfy it . Most other things we long for can allay the cravings ...
... foul , it in- flames the mind , and puts it into a violent hurry of to't : Itis ftill reaching after an empty , imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or fatisfy it . Most other things we long for can allay the cravings ...
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... foul of a good man , which are great ornaments to human nature , but not able to difcover . themselves to the knowledge of others : They are tranfacted in private , without noife or fhew , and are only visible to the great Searcher of ...
... foul of a good man , which are great ornaments to human nature , but not able to difcover . themselves to the knowledge of others : They are tranfacted in private , without noife or fhew , and are only visible to the great Searcher of ...
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actions anfwer arifes beauty becauſe befides cafe confequence confider confideration confifts converfation defign defire difcourfe difcovered divine endeavour eternity exiftence exprefs eyes faculties faid fame fatire fatisfaction fecret feems felf fenfe fenfible fent feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuch fuffer fuperior fure give good-nature greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human humour huſband imagination impoffible inftances itſelf juft kind laft lefs live loft look mankind mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferve occafion ourſelves paffage paffions pafs perfection perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent preferve raiſed reafon reft reprefented Rhadamanthus ſpeak SPECTATOR TATLER thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſeful virtue whofe wife wiſdom words
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Seite 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Seite 233 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Seite 146 - 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.
Seite 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Seite 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Seite 232 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Seite 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Seite 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Seite 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Seite 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.