The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Volumen 11808 |
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... actions , conspi- cuous situations , or striking vicissitudes . The life of a scholar seldom abounds in surprising adventures . He rises to eminence by slow exertions ; and when his fame is established , it is generally too late to ...
... actions , conspi- cuous situations , or striking vicissitudes . The life of a scholar seldom abounds in surprising adventures . He rises to eminence by slow exertions ; and when his fame is established , it is generally too late to ...
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... actions of Shellenberg and Blenheim , both with historical accuracy and poetic animation . He was immediately rewarded by the Treasurer GODOLPHIN , who appointed him to succeed the celebrated Mr. LOCKE as Commissioner of Appeals . In ...
... actions of Shellenberg and Blenheim , both with historical accuracy and poetic animation . He was immediately rewarded by the Treasurer GODOLPHIN , who appointed him to succeed the celebrated Mr. LOCKE as Commissioner of Appeals . In ...
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... action . Every man has such an active principle in him , that he will find out something to employ himself upon , in what- ever place or state of life he is posted . I have heard of a gentleman who was under close confinement in the ...
... action . Every man has such an active principle in him , that he will find out something to employ himself upon , in what- ever place or state of life he is posted . I have heard of a gentleman who was under close confinement in the ...
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... action , has disposed of his beagles , and got a pack of stop hounds . What these want in speed , he endeavours to make amends for by the deep- ness of their mouths and the variety of their notes , which are suited in such manner to ...
... action , has disposed of his beagles , and got a pack of stop hounds . What these want in speed , he endeavours to make amends for by the deep- ness of their mouths and the variety of their notes , which are suited in such manner to ...
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... action or incident that bears a remote analogy to any blunder or absurdity in reasonable creatures . But to come into common life : I shall pass by the consideration of those stage coxcombs that are able to shake a whole audience , and ...
... action or incident that bears a remote analogy to any blunder or absurdity in reasonable creatures . But to come into common life : I shall pass by the consideration of those stage coxcombs that are able to shake a whole audience , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
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Página 42 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Página 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Página 118 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Página 176 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Página 42 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Página 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Página 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.