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... that of the lowest minister of state , and in which he took credit to himself “ for
never deviating from the rule observed by all Ministries ; that of keeping the
Gazette very innocent and very insipid ” ) ; and afterwards a Commissioner of
Stamps .
... that of the lowest minister of state , and in which he took credit to himself “ for
never deviating from the rule observed by all Ministries ; that of keeping the
Gazette very innocent and very insipid ” ) ; and afterwards a Commissioner of
Stamps .
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... and smooth the bed of death , Explore the thought , explain the asking eye ,
And keep awhile one parent from the sky . " Between 1730 and 1740 he
published two other “ Moral Essays , ” “ Imitations of Horace , ” a modernised
version of the ...
... and smooth the bed of death , Explore the thought , explain the asking eye ,
And keep awhile one parent from the sky . " Between 1730 and 1740 he
published two other “ Moral Essays , ” “ Imitations of Horace , ” a modernised
version of the ...
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... keeping him in a state of dependence : but it is certain that Swift became
impatient , and when , after frequent application and remonstrance , he was at
last offered a situation in the Irish Rolls of about £100 a year , he rejected it with
disdain ...
... keeping him in a state of dependence : but it is certain that Swift became
impatient , and when , after frequent application and remonstrance , he was at
last offered a situation in the Irish Rolls of about £100 a year , he rejected it with
disdain ...
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important reasons , I must keep to myself , at least I have passed my latter years
in this city , where I for soine time ; I mean an account of my nam ' , am frequently
seen in most public places , though age , and lodgings . I must confess , I would ...
important reasons , I must keep to myself , at least I have passed my latter years
in this city , where I for soine time ; I mean an account of my nam ' , am frequently
seen in most public places , though age , and lodgings . I must confess , I would ...
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I know several of my friends and well - wishers are either by the affluence of their
fortunes , or laziness in great pain for me , lest I should not be able to of their
dispositions , have no other business with it keep up : he spirit of a paper which I
...
I know several of my friends and well - wishers are either by the affluence of their
fortunes , or laziness in great pain for me , lest I should not be able to of their
dispositions , have no other business with it keep up : he spirit of a paper which I
...
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Página 173 - 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 farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through 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...
Página 195 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Página 173 - ... on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it. I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Página 173 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Página xxxix - There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences.
Página 195 - 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 173 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean...
Página 121 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees any body else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Página 25 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another : the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind.
Página 115 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.
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| Título | The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. |
| Autor | Spectator The |
| Publicado | 1857 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 7 Abr. 2006 |
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