The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volumen2J. Bumstead, 1801 |
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... tion . Certain it is , that they , who fpeak gracefully , are very lamely reprefented in having their fpeeches read or repeated by unfkilful people ; for there is fomething native to cachman , foinherent to his thoughts and fentiments ...
... tion . Certain it is , that they , who fpeak gracefully , are very lamely reprefented in having their fpeeches read or repeated by unfkilful people ; for there is fomething native to cachman , foinherent to his thoughts and fentiments ...
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... tion . This art of his is used with the most exact and honeft skill ; he never attempts your paffions till he has convinced your reafon . All the objections which he can form , are laid open and difperfed , before he ufes the leaft ...
... tion . This art of his is used with the most exact and honeft skill ; he never attempts your paffions till he has convinced your reafon . All the objections which he can form , are laid open and difperfed , before he ufes the leaft ...
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... tion of the fair fex . I have often thought wrapping gowns and dirty linen , with all that huddled œconomy of drefs which paffes under the general name of a mob , the bane of conjugal love , and one of the readi- eft means imaginable to ...
... tion of the fair fex . I have often thought wrapping gowns and dirty linen , with all that huddled œconomy of drefs which paffes under the general name of a mob , the bane of conjugal love , and one of the readi- eft means imaginable to ...
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... tion . " The old English plainnefs and fincerity , that gen erous integrity of nature , and honefty of difpofition , which always argues true greatnefs of mind , and is ufually accompanied with undaunted courage and re- folution , is in ...
... tion . " The old English plainnefs and fincerity , that gen erous integrity of nature , and honefty of difpofition , which always argues true greatnefs of mind , and is ufually accompanied with undaunted courage and re- folution , is in ...
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... tion are physicians , for the first question they always afk me , is , how I do . I have this question put to me above a hundred times a day . Nay , they are not on- ly thus inquifitive after my health , but with it in a more folemn ...
... tion are physicians , for the first question they always afk me , is , how I do . I have this question put to me above a hundred times a day . Nay , they are not on- ly thus inquifitive after my health , but with it in a more folemn ...
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The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected ..., Volumen2 Vista completa - 1753 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actions anfwer arifes beauty becauſe befides cafe confequence confider confideration confifts converfation defign defire difcourfe difcovered divine endeavour eternity exiftence exprefs eyes faculties faid fame fatire fatisfaction fecret feems felf fenfe fenfible fent feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuch fuffer fuperior fure give good-nature greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human humour huſband imagination impoffible inftances itſelf juft kind laft lefs live loft look mankind mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferve occafion ourſelves paffage paffions pafs perfection perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent preferve raiſed reafon reft reprefented Rhadamanthus ſpeak SPECTATOR TATLER thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſeful virtue whofe wife wiſdom words
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Página 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Página 233 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Página 146 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Página 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Página 232 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Página 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Página 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Página 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Página 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.