The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 7J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... lately erected themselves into a nocturnal frater- nity , under the title of the Mohock club ; a name borrowed , it seems , from a sort of cannibals in India , who subsist by plundering and devouring all the nations about them . The ...
... lately erected themselves into a nocturnal frater- nity , under the title of the Mohock club ; a name borrowed , it seems , from a sort of cannibals in India , who subsist by plundering and devouring all the nations about them . The ...
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... lately read a voyage to the South Sea , in which it is said , that the ladies of Chili always dress their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of Will's last night's lecture on these natural mir- rors ...
... lately read a voyage to the South Sea , in which it is said , that the ladies of Chili always dress their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of Will's last night's lecture on these natural mir- rors ...
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... lately been under this discipline . He tells me he had the honour to dance before emperor himself , not without the applause and acclamations both of his imperial majesty and the whole ring ; though I dare say , neither I nor any of his ...
... lately been under this discipline . He tells me he had the honour to dance before emperor himself , not without the applause and acclamations both of his imperial majesty and the whole ring ; though I dare say , neither I nor any of his ...
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... . CREECH . I HAVE lately received a third letter from the gentleman who has already given the public two essays upon education . As his thoughts seem to be very just and new upon this subject , I 98 No. 337 . THE SPECTATOR .
... . CREECH . I HAVE lately received a third letter from the gentleman who has already given the public two essays upon education . As his thoughts seem to be very just and new upon this subject , I 98 No. 337 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... lately met with a passage in Plutarch , which , if I am not very much mistaken still gives us a clearer light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , that Alexander in his youth had a master named Lysimachus , who , though ...
... lately met with a passage in Plutarch , which , if I am not very much mistaken still gives us a clearer light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , that Alexander in his youth had a master named Lysimachus , who , though ...
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Seite 236 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Seite 44 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 147 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Seite 37 - Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me; I started back: It started back: but pleased I soon return'd; Pleas'd it return'd as soon, with answering looks Of sympathy and love...
Seite 14 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Seite 79 - Was given him temper'd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge: it met The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheer; nor stay'd, But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, shared All his right side.
Seite 210 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Seite 243 - Broke up shall heave the ocean to usurp Beyond all bounds, till inundation rise Above the highest hills : then shall this mount Of Paradise by might of waves be...
Seite 18 - Sole partner, and sole part, of all these joys, Dearer thyself than all ; needs must the Power That made us, and for us this ample world, Be infinitely good, and of his good As liberal and free as infinite...
Seite 15 - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn. Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.