Spectator (The)Isaac, Tuckey & Company, 1836 - 714 páginas |
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... occasion , matter of great jest , if a man enters with a prominent pair of shoulders into an assembly , or is distinguished by an expansion of mouth , or obliquity of aspect . It is happy for a man that has any of these oddnesses about ...
... occasion , matter of great jest , if a man enters with a prominent pair of shoulders into an assembly , or is distinguished by an expansion of mouth , or obliquity of aspect . It is happy for a man that has any of these oddnesses about ...
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... occasion ; with full powers to rectify or expunge whatever I shall find irregular or defective . For want of such an officer , there is nothing like sound literature and good sense to be met with in those objects that are every where ...
... occasion ; with full powers to rectify or expunge whatever I shall find irregular or defective . For want of such an officer , there is nothing like sound literature and good sense to be met with in those objects that are every where ...
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... occasion . " MR . SPECTATOR , " Your making public the late trouble I gave you , you will find to have been the occasion of this . Who should I meet at the coffee - house door the other night , but my old friend Mr. President ? I saw ...
... occasion . " MR . SPECTATOR , " Your making public the late trouble I gave you , you will find to have been the occasion of this . Who should I meet at the coffee - house door the other night , but my old friend Mr. President ? I saw ...
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... occasion for a very hearty laughter . " Nay , " says he , " I knew you would laugh at me , but I will ask your father . " He did so ; the father received this intelligence with no less joy than surprise , and was very glad he had now no ...
... occasion for a very hearty laughter . " Nay , " says he , " I knew you would laugh at me , but I will ask your father . " He did so ; the father received this intelligence with no less joy than surprise , and was very glad he had now no ...
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... occasion , the ladies are sure to have an ingly ; for whether it be that all who go to this piece would if they could , or that the innocents go to it , to guess only what she would if she could , the play has always been well received ...
... occasion , the ladies are sure to have an ingly ; for whether it be that all who go to this piece would if they could , or that the innocents go to it , to guess only what she would if she could , the play has always been well received ...
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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.