The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... excellent , or ill . ROSCOMMON . SINCE two or three writers of comedy , who are now living , have taken their farewel of the stage , those who succeed them , finding themselves incapable of rising up to their wit , humour , and good ...
... excellent , or ill . ROSCOMMON . SINCE two or three writers of comedy , who are now living , have taken their farewel of the stage , those who succeed them , finding themselves incapable of rising up to their wit , humour , and good ...
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... excellent , and custom will render it the most delightful . ' Men , whose circum- stances will permit them to choose their own way of life , are inexcusable if they do not pursue that which their judgment tells them is the most laudable ...
... excellent , and custom will render it the most delightful . ' Men , whose circum- stances will permit them to choose their own way of life , are inexcusable if they do not pursue that which their judgment tells them is the most laudable ...
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... excellent author has shewn how every particular custom and habit of virtue will , in its own nature , produce the heaven , or a state of hap- piness , in him who shall hereafter practise it : as , on the contrary , how every custom or ...
... excellent author has shewn how every particular custom and habit of virtue will , in its own nature , produce the heaven , or a state of hap- piness , in him who shall hereafter practise it : as , on the contrary , how every custom or ...
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... excellent recipe , that the love of busi- ness and money is the greatest mortifier of inordinate desires imaginable , as employing the mind continu- ally in the careful oversight of what one has , in the eager quest after more , in ...
... excellent recipe , that the love of busi- ness and money is the greatest mortifier of inordinate desires imaginable , as employing the mind continu- ally in the careful oversight of what one has , in the eager quest after more , in ...
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... excellent coach - woman , many were the glances at each other which we had for an hour and an half , in all parts of the town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady was conveniently lost , with notice from her coachman to ...
... excellent coach - woman , many were the glances at each other which we had for an hour and an half , in all parts of the town , by the skill of our drivers ; till at last my lady was conveniently lost , with notice from her coachman to ...
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Página 363 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 349 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 218 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 368 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 142 - Softly on my eyelids laid ; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Página 369 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Página 74 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that...
Página 71 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 349 - Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 218 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade...