Spectator (The)Isaac, Tuckey & Company, 1836 - 714 páginas |
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... appear as clearly to those to come , as it does to his contemporaries , that all the great events which SIR , As the professed design of this work is to enter - governed a spirit , were the blessings of heaven upon were brought to pass ...
... appear as clearly to those to come , as it does to his contemporaries , that all the great events which SIR , As the professed design of this work is to enter - governed a spirit , were the blessings of heaven upon were brought to pass ...
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... appear in their conduct what they are in their hearts . By this means , love , during the time of my speculations , shall be carried on with the same sincerity as any other affair of less considera- tion . As this is the greatest ...
... appear in their conduct what they are in their hearts . By this means , love , during the time of my speculations , shall be carried on with the same sincerity as any other affair of less considera- tion . As this is the greatest ...
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... appear'd . I KNOW no evil under the sun so great as the abuse of the understanding , and yet there is no one vice more common . It has diffused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind , and there is hardly that person ...
... appear'd . I KNOW no evil under the sun so great as the abuse of the understanding , and yet there is no one vice more common . It has diffused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind , and there is hardly that person ...
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... appear in any such character at my house . The last day we presented , every body was so rashly habited , that when they came to speak to each other , a nymph with a crook had not a word to say " I take notice of your fable of the lion ...
... appear in any such character at my house . The last day we presented , every body was so rashly habited , that when they came to speak to each other , a nymph with a crook had not a word to say " I take notice of your fable of the lion ...
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... appear at first hearing , I cannot but think it much more just than that which prevailed in our English opera before this innovation : the transition from an air to recitative music being more natural than the passing from a song to ...
... appear at first hearing , I cannot but think it much more just than that which prevailed in our English opera before this innovation : the transition from an air to recitative music being more natural than the passing from a song to ...
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Página 287 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 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 203 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 129 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Página 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 345 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 6 - He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Página 181 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Página 181 - 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 7 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily.
Página 6 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.