The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... town has had her heart irrecoverably won , by men who have not made one advance which ties their admirers , though the females languish with the utmost anxiety . I have often , by way of admonition to my female readers , given them ...
... town has had her heart irrecoverably won , by men who have not made one advance which ties their admirers , though the females languish with the utmost anxiety . I have often , by way of admonition to my female readers , given them ...
Página 36
... towns , and change of manners saw . ROSCOMMON . WHEN I consider this great city in its several quar- ters and divisions , I look upon it as an aggregate of various nations distinguished from each other by their respective customs ...
... towns , and change of manners saw . ROSCOMMON . WHEN I consider this great city in its several quar- ters and divisions , I look upon it as an aggregate of various nations distinguished from each other by their respective customs ...
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... town that Valerio is not that extraor- dinary person he was taken for . If men would be content to graft upon Nature , and assist her operations , what mighty effects might we expect ! Tully would not stand so much alone in oratory ...
... town that Valerio is not that extraor- dinary person he was taken for . If men would be content to graft upon Nature , and assist her operations , what mighty effects might we expect ! Tully would not stand so much alone in oratory ...
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... town is highly obliged to that excellent artist , for having shewn us the Italian music in its perfec- tion , as well as for that generous approbation he lately gave to an opera ' of our own country , in which the composer endeavoured ...
... town is highly obliged to that excellent artist , for having shewn us the Italian music in its perfec- tion , as well as for that generous approbation he lately gave to an opera ' of our own country , in which the composer endeavoured ...
Página 49
... me with a very kind letter ; by which I find you shift the scene of your life from the town to the country , and enjoy that mixt state which 1 See No 366 . wise men both delight in , and are qualified for 406 . 49 SPECTATOR ,
... me with a very kind letter ; by which I find you shift the scene of your life from the town to the country , and enjoy that mixt state which 1 See No 366 . wise men both delight in , and are qualified for 406 . 49 SPECTATOR ,
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Passagens conhecidas
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...