The SpectatorT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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Pagina 5
... head into a round of poli ticians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's , and whilst I seem attentive to nothing but the ...
... head into a round of poli ticians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's , and whilst I seem attentive to nothing but the ...
Pagina 12
... head of his troop in the park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . If you speak of a ...
... head of his troop in the park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . If you speak of a ...
Pagina 20
... heads of the audi- ence may sometimes suffer from them . I am credibly informed , that there was once a design of casting into an opera the story of Whittington and his cat , and that in order to it , there had been got together a great ...
... heads of the audi- ence may sometimes suffer from them . I am credibly informed , that there was once a design of casting into an opera the story of Whittington and his cat , and that in order to it , there had been got together a great ...
Pagina 35
... head that I wanted company , and therefore would frequently come into my chamber to keep me from being alone . This I bore for two or three days ; but D2 No. 12 . 35 SPECTATOR . some finishing touches to those which are already the ...
... head that I wanted company , and therefore would frequently come into my chamber to keep me from being alone . This I bore for two or three days ; but D2 No. 12 . 35 SPECTATOR . some finishing touches to those which are already the ...
Pagina 40
... head ; some fancied that the lion would not pretend to lay his paws upon the hero , by reason of the received opinion , that a lion will not hurt a virgin several , who pretended to have seen the opera in Italy , had informed their ...
... head ; some fancied that the lion would not pretend to lay his paws upon the hero , by reason of the received opinion , that a lion will not hurt a virgin several , who pretended to have seen the opera in Italy , had informed their ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 39 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Pagina 374 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Pagina 374 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth Up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Pagina 324 - ... that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Pagina 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Pagina 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Pagina 373 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Pagina 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Pagina 334 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 257 - 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.