The Spiritual Quixote: Or, the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A Comic Romance. In Two Volumes. ...

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J. Dodsley, 1774
 

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Page 238 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reafon, would he fkip and play ? Pleas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood, Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'nj; Who fees with equal eye, as God!
Page 238 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent ftate : From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know : Or who could fuffer Being here below?
Page 64 - To us invifible, or dimly feen In thefe thy loweft works ; yet thefe declare Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and pow'r divine. Speak ye who beft can tell, ye fons of light...
Page 27 - Mr. Geoffry entertained his little circle under the great elm at Tugwell's gate : and though they were not capable of distinguishing nicely between his doctrine and what they heard at church; yet being delivered to them in a more familiar manner, and by a new teacher, and in a new place, it made a considerable impression upon them ; and brought them punctually the next evening to their usual rendezvous.
Page 19 - If the reader however has otherwise determined it; if he is of opinion, that every representation of nature, that does not relate to the great world, is to be exploded as contemptible stuff; he will certainly repent of having read thus far; and I would exhort him, by all means, to return in peace to his card-assembly or to his chocolate-house, and pursue so low a subject no further.
Page 94 - ... the utility of this race of men, in works of this kind; and to intreat the reader to consider the Squire as a lawful representative of the Knight, or rather as a Merry Andrew to our Spiritual Quack ; and that, if Tugwell is not only 'witty in himself,' but 'the cause that wit is in other men...
Page 34 - Stephen, and, like a true Spiritual Quixote, to abandon his dwelling: and, in imitation of Mr. Whitfield and his associates, to use his earnest endeavours, to revive the practice of primitive piety and the doctrines of the Reformation, by turning missionary, and publishing his religious notions in every part of the kingdom.
Page 187 - ... his person, or his station in life ; and certainly if an inhabitant of the Cape of Good Hope were to behold the stiff horsehair buckles or the tied wigs of our lawyers, physicians, tradesmen, or divines, they would appear as barbarous and extraordinary to them as the sheep's tripe and chitterlings about the neck of a Hottentot do to us.
Page 302 - ... to the foolish ambition of being seen in what is called good company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath ; the one is a constant series of flirting and gadding about, the other of sauntering from place to place, without any scheme or pursuit. Scandal or fashions engross the conversation of the former ; the news of the day, the price of fish, the history of the...

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