The Spectator, Volume 3Tonson, 1739 |
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... short , he put his Uncle to Death , and very difficultly prevailed upon himself to fpare Mariamne . AFTER this he was forced on a fecond Journey into Egypt , when he committed his Lady to the Care of So- bemus , with the fame private ...
... short , he put his Uncle to Death , and very difficultly prevailed upon himself to fpare Mariamne . AFTER this he was forced on a fecond Journey into Egypt , when he committed his Lady to the Care of So- bemus , with the fame private ...
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... short , the Town is full of these young Patriarchs , not to men- tion feveral batter'd Beaus , who , like heedlefs Spend- thrifts that fquander away their Eftates before they are Mafters of them , have raised up their whole Stock of ...
... short , the Town is full of these young Patriarchs , not to men- tion feveral batter'd Beaus , who , like heedlefs Spend- thrifts that fquander away their Eftates before they are Mafters of them , have raised up their whole Stock of ...
Página 148
... short of what he expects ; and therefore înftead of fhewing him . the Efteem they have for his Merit , their Reflexions turn only upon that they obferve he has of it himself . IF you go among the Women , and behold Gloriana trip into a ...
... short of what he expects ; and therefore înftead of fhewing him . the Efteem they have for his Merit , their Reflexions turn only upon that they obferve he has of it himself . IF you go among the Women , and behold Gloriana trip into a ...
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... Short - fightedness , that discovers the minutest Objects which are near at Hand , but is not able to dif- cern Things at a Distance . Discretion the more it is dif- covered , gives a greater Authority to the Perfon who pof- feffes it ...
... Short - fightedness , that discovers the minutest Objects which are near at Hand , but is not able to dif- cern Things at a Distance . Discretion the more it is dif- covered , gives a greater Authority to the Perfon who pof- feffes it ...
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... short Preface take the Account as fol- lows . BATTUS , the Son of Menalcas the Sicilian , leaped for Bombyca the Mufician : Got rid of his Paffion with the Lofs of his Right Leg and Arm , which were broken in the Fall . MELISSA , in ...
... short Preface take the Account as fol- lows . BATTUS , the Son of Menalcas the Sicilian , leaped for Bombyca the Mufician : Got rid of his Paffion with the Lofs of his Right Leg and Arm , which were broken in the Fall . MELISSA , in ...
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Página 305 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 103 - If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them ; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them; if exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes...
Página 106 - If we consider these ancient sages, a great part of whose philosophy consisted in a temperate and abstemious course of life, one would think the life of a philosopher and the life of a man were of two different dates.
Página 212 - IF we look abroad upon the great multitude of mankind, and endeavour to trace out the principles of action in every individual, it will, I think...
Página 207 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 222 - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
Página 60 - To justify this assertion, I shall put my reader in mind of Horace, the greatest wit and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau, the most correct poet among the moderns ; not to mention La Fontaine, who by this way of writing is come more into vogue than any other author of our times.
Página 89 - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
Página 63 - Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them. But upon examining to which of them any individual they met with belonged, they found each of them had a right to him ; for that, contrary...
Página 217 - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...