The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Volumes 5-61853 |
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... father for my love ? I can not help it if he will give you my person ; but I assure you it is not in his power , nor even in my own , to give you my heart . Dear sir , do but consider the ill consequence of such a match ; you are fifty ...
... father for my love ? I can not help it if he will give you my person ; but I assure you it is not in his power , nor even in my own , to give you my heart . Dear sir , do but consider the ill consequence of such a match ; you are fifty ...
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... fathers , used to quote every now and then a Latin sentence to his illiterate hearers , who it * Aristotle , or as some think , Diogenes . seems , found themselves so edified by it , that No. 221 . 31 THE SPECTATOR .
... fathers , used to quote every now and then a Latin sentence to his illiterate hearers , who it * Aristotle , or as some think , Diogenes . seems , found themselves so edified by it , that No. 221 . 31 THE SPECTATOR .
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... fathers , he digested into his sermons the whole book of Quæ Genus , adding , however , such explications to it , as he thought might be for the benefit of his people . He afterwards entered upon As in Præ- senti , which he converted in ...
... fathers , he digested into his sermons the whole book of Quæ Genus , adding , however , such explications to it , as he thought might be for the benefit of his people . He afterwards entered upon As in Præ- senti , which he converted in ...
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... father's in- justice to him , he would be smitten with the re- flection more deeply than can be understood by any but one who is a father . Sure there can be nothing more afflicting , than to think it had been happier for his son to ...
... father's in- justice to him , he would be smitten with the re- flection more deeply than can be understood by any but one who is a father . Sure there can be nothing more afflicting , than to think it had been happier for his son to ...
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... ex- cuse the disorderly ferments of youthful blood : I mean the passion for getting money , exclusive of the character of the provident father , the af- fectionate husband , or the generous friend . It may 48 No. 224 . THE SPECTATOR .
... ex- cuse the disorderly ferments of youthful blood : I mean the passion for getting money , exclusive of the character of the provident father , the af- fectionate husband , or the generous friend . It may 48 No. 224 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance action ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour cern character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances consider creature critics daugh desire discourse dress endeavour entertain Enville epic poem fable fame father favour female fortune gentleman give greatest Greek happy head heart Homer honour hope Hudibras humble servant humour husband Iliad imagination innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady leap letter live look lover lover's leap mankind manner marriage matter ment merit Milton mind nature never obliged observed occasion opinion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch poem poet portunity present proper racters reader reason Sappho sentiments sion soul speak SPECTATOR speculations spirit STEELE tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town ture turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole wife woman words write young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 177 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 107 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Página 179 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 181 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Página 185 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Página 170 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 180 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Página 180 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Página 3 - The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Página 6 - It is therefore an unspeakable blessing, to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though, it must be confessed, there are, even in these parts, several poor uninstructed persons, who are but little above the inhabitants of those nations of which I have been here speaking...