The Spectator, Volume 5Tonson, 1739 |
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... Specta- tor having prefix'd before each of his Volumes the Name of fome great Perfon to whom he has particular Obligati- ons , lays his Claim to your Lordship's A 2 Patro- Patronage upon the fame Account . I must confefs , LESYR ...
... Specta- tor having prefix'd before each of his Volumes the Name of fome great Perfon to whom he has particular Obligati- ons , lays his Claim to your Lordship's A 2 Patro- Patronage upon the fame Account . I must confefs , LESYR ...
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Patronage upon the fame Account . I must confefs , my Lord , had not I already received great Inftances of your Favour , I fhould have been afraid of fubmitting a Work of this Nature to your perufal . You are fo thoroughly acquainted ...
Patronage upon the fame Account . I must confefs , my Lord , had not I already received great Inftances of your Favour , I fhould have been afraid of fubmitting a Work of this Nature to your perufal . You are fo thoroughly acquainted ...
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... must know , Mr. SPECTATOR , that I am a Maiden Lady of a good Fortune , who have had ⚫ feveral Matches offered me for these ten Years last past , ⚫ and have at prefent warm Applications made to me by a very pretty Fellow . As I am at ...
... must know , Mr. SPECTATOR , that I am a Maiden Lady of a good Fortune , who have had ⚫ feveral Matches offered me for these ten Years last past , ⚫ and have at prefent warm Applications made to me by a very pretty Fellow . As I am at ...
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... must own , Sir , thefe are only broken incoherent • Memoirs of this wonderful Society , but they are the best I have been yet able to procure ; for being but of late • Eftablishment , it is not ripe for a juft Hiftory ! And to ⚫ be ...
... must own , Sir , thefe are only broken incoherent • Memoirs of this wonderful Society , but they are the best I have been yet able to procure ; for being but of late • Eftablishment , it is not ripe for a juft Hiftory ! And to ⚫ be ...
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... must be contented to know , that Mrs. Margaret Clark was very pretty , but are left in the dark as to the Name of her Lover . T N ° 325. Thursday , March 13 . -Quid fruftra Simulachra fugacia captas ? Quod petis , eft nufquam : quod ...
... must be contented to know , that Mrs. Margaret Clark was very pretty , but are left in the dark as to the Name of her Lover . T N ° 325. Thursday , March 13 . -Quid fruftra Simulachra fugacia captas ? Quod petis , eft nufquam : quod ...
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Page 244 - Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.
Page 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 80 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Page 232 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Page 26 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. " Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field : let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.
Page 155 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Page 132 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Page 29 - I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn, and so conformable to the notions which are given of them in scripture, as this in Milton. After having...
Page 20 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Page 79 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.