Selections from the Spectator of Addison and SteeleE. P. Dutton & Company, 1896 - 410 Seiten |
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... light , And ( without raising expectation high ) Surprises us with dazzling miracles . - RoscOMMON . I HAVE observed , that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man ...
... light , And ( without raising expectation high ) Surprises us with dazzling miracles . - RoscOMMON . I HAVE observed , that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man ...
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... Light minds are pleased with trifles . WHEN I was in France , I used to gaze with great astonishment at the splendid equipages and party- colored habits of that fantastic nation . I was one day in particular contemplating a lady that ...
... Light minds are pleased with trifles . WHEN I was in France , I used to gaze with great astonishment at the splendid equipages and party- colored habits of that fantastic nation . I was one day in particular contemplating a lady that ...
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... light fantastical disposition . I myself remember a young lady that was very warmly solicited by a couple of importunate rivals , who , for several months together , did all they could to recommend themselves , by complacency of ...
... light fantastical disposition . I myself remember a young lady that was very warmly solicited by a couple of importunate rivals , who , for several months together , did all they could to recommend themselves , by complacency of ...
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... light wherein none of the critics have considered it . That excellent man entertaining his friends , a little before he drank the bowl of poison , with a discourse on the immortality of the soul , at his entering upon it says that he ...
... light wherein none of the critics have considered it . That excellent man entertaining his friends , a little before he drank the bowl of poison , with a discourse on the immortality of the soul , at his entering upon it says that he ...
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... glittering scenes of life . Sure this is but just as reasonable as if a man should call for more light , when he has a mind to go to sleep . Since then it is certain that our own hearts deceive 26 [ No. 27 . THE SPECTATOR .
... glittering scenes of life . Sure this is but just as reasonable as if a man should call for more light , when he has a mind to go to sleep . Since then it is certain that our own hearts deceive 26 [ No. 27 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 132 - 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...
Seite 338 - 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.
Seite xiii - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 205 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, 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 honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Seite 156 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
Seite 407 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite xx - A general Trader of good Sense is pleasanter Company than a general Scholar ;' and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected Eloquence, the Perspicuity of his Discourse gives the same Pleasure that Wit would in another Man. He has made his...
Seite 361 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Seite xviii - ... his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Seite 312 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.