The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... speaking . As that nation pro- duced men of great genius , without considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and ...
... speaking . As that nation pro- duced men of great genius , without considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and ...
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... speak to each other on the foot of being men , except they were of each other's acquaintance . I went afterwards to Robin's , and saw people , who had dined with me at the five - penny ordina- ry just before , give bills for the value ...
... speak to each other on the foot of being men , except they were of each other's acquaintance . I went afterwards to Robin's , and saw people , who had dined with me at the five - penny ordina- ry just before , give bills for the value ...
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... speak either at the bar , pulpit , or any public assembly whatsoever , how they discover their ignorance in the use of similies . There are , in the pulpit it- self , as well as in other places , such gross abuses in this kind , that I ...
... speak either at the bar , pulpit , or any public assembly whatsoever , how they discover their ignorance in the use of similies . There are , in the pulpit it- self , as well as in other places , such gross abuses in this kind , that I ...
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... speaking or acting in a dissolute or irrational manner , but that one who is in their company should be ashamed of governing himself by the principles of reason and virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false modesty , as it ...
... speaking or acting in a dissolute or irrational manner , but that one who is in their company should be ashamed of governing himself by the principles of reason and virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false modesty , as it ...
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... speak for them- selves . * FOR THE SPECTATOR . · MR . SPECTATOR , ' You very much promote the interests of virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine po- ems , whilst we are ...
... speak for them- selves . * FOR THE SPECTATOR . · MR . SPECTATOR , ' You very much promote the interests of virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine po- ems , whilst we are ...
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Page 99 - I HAVE SET THE LoRD ALWAYS BEFORE ME : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 71 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 12 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whence those comforts flow'd.
Page 99 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Page 104 - 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?
Page 182 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 145 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 12 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ, Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 63 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 84 - 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? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i