The Spectator, Band 3William Durell and Company, 1809 |
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... give the common enemy , but to those private evils which they produce , in the heart of almost every particular person . This influence is very fatal both to mens morals and their understandings ; it sinks the virtue of a nation , and ...
... give the common enemy , but to those private evils which they produce , in the heart of almost every particular person . This influence is very fatal both to mens morals and their understandings ; it sinks the virtue of a nation , and ...
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... gives me a serious concern to see such a spirit of dissension in the country ; not only as it destroys vir- tue and common sense , and renders us in a manner barbarians towards one another , but as it perpetuates our animosities ...
... gives me a serious concern to see such a spirit of dissension in the country ; not only as it destroys vir- tue and common sense , and renders us in a manner barbarians towards one another , but as it perpetuates our animosities ...
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... give the country their revenge . Since ' your withdrawing from this place , the fair sex are ' run into great extravagancies . Their petticoats , ' which began to heave and swell before you left us , are now blown up into a most ...
... give the country their revenge . Since ' your withdrawing from this place , the fair sex are ' run into great extravagancies . Their petticoats , ' which began to heave and swell before you left us , are now blown up into a most ...
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... give posterity an extraordinary idea of him , and make ⚫ them believe he had commanded an army of giants . ' I am persuaded , that if one of the present petticoats ⚫ happens to be hung up in any repository of curiosi- ties , it will ...
... give posterity an extraordinary idea of him , and make ⚫ them believe he had commanded an army of giants . ' I am persuaded , that if one of the present petticoats ⚫ happens to be hung up in any repository of curiosi- ties , it will ...
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... gives a grace to their portraitures at present , will make a very odd figure , and perhaps look monstrous in the eyes of posterity . For this reason they often repre- sent an illustrious person in a Roman habit , or in some other dress ...
... gives a grace to their portraitures at present , will make a very odd figure , and perhaps look monstrous in the eyes of posterity . For this reason they often repre- sent an illustrious person in a Roman habit , or in some other dress ...
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Seite 158 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Seite 158 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Seite 249 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant 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?
Seite 156 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is thus bounded with darkness...
Seite 157 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so 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.
Seite 156 - ... music who had passed by it, but never heard that the musician had before made himself visible. When he had raised my thoughts by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned to me, and by the waving of his hand directed me to approach the place where he sat.
Seite 155 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Seite 159 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. 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...
Seite 249 - If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering: If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate; then let mine arm fall from my shoulderblade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Seite 160 - The genius making me no answer, I turned me 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...