The Spectator [by J. Addison and others].1857 |
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... greater part of mankind to accomplish this work , and live according to their own approbation , as soon as they possibly can . But since the duration of life is so uncertain , ( and that has been a common topic of dis- course ever since ...
... greater part of mankind to accomplish this work , and live according to their own approbation , as soon as they possibly can . But since the duration of life is so uncertain , ( and that has been a common topic of dis- course ever since ...
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... greater veneration than Hercules was of old , you can drive monsters from the theatre ; and think your merit will be as much greater than his , as to convince is more than to conquer . " I am , Sir , your most obedient servant , T. D. ...
... greater veneration than Hercules was of old , you can drive monsters from the theatre ; and think your merit will be as much greater than his , as to convince is more than to conquer . " I am , Sir , your most obedient servant , T. D. ...
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... greater latitude for comic than tragic artifices , and by cousequence a much greater indulgence to be allowed them.-C. No. 45. ] SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1711 . But Natio comoda est . - Juv Sat. iii . 100 . The nation is a company of ...
... greater latitude for comic than tragic artifices , and by cousequence a much greater indulgence to be allowed them.-C. No. 45. ] SATURDAY , APRIL 21 , 1711 . But Natio comoda est . - Juv Sat. iii . 100 . The nation is a company of ...
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... greater than any that has ever yet appeared before you . The beau has varied his dress every day in his life for these thirty years past , and still added to the deformity he was born with . The Pict has still greater merit towards us ...
... greater than any that has ever yet appeared before you . The beau has varied his dress every day in his life for these thirty years past , and still added to the deformity he was born with . The Pict has still greater merit towards us ...
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... greater blockhead . The simple acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a per- son , or thing , made out of the initial letters of seve- As the monks were the masters of all that little ral verses , and by that means written , after ...
... greater blockhead . The simple acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a per- son , or thing , made out of the initial letters of seve- As the monks were the masters of all that little ral verses , and by that means written , after ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance action Addison admiration agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character consider conversation creature desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment Eustace Budgell eyes fair sex father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent John Byrom John Hughes kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means ment mind mistress nature nerally never obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Pict pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason received Sappho sense Sir Roger Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR spirit Steele tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turally turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whigs whole woman women words writing young
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Página 177 - 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 199 - 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 177 - ... 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 177 - 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 1 - 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 199 - 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 177 - 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 125 - 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 29 - ... 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 119 - 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.