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... given to reading and calm conversation should ever be visited by these roarers : but they think they themselves , as neighbours , may come into our rooms with the same right , that they and their dogs hunt in 10 THE SPECTATOR .
... given to reading and calm conversation should ever be visited by these roarers : but they think they themselves , as neighbours , may come into our rooms with the same right , that they and their dogs hunt in 10 THE SPECTATOR .
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... given over by my physicians , but should with much difficulty recover : that the first time I took the air afterwards , I should be addressed to by a young gen- tleman of a plentiful fortune , good sense , and a gene- rous spirit . Mr ...
... given over by my physicians , but should with much difficulty recover : that the first time I took the air afterwards , I should be addressed to by a young gen- tleman of a plentiful fortune , good sense , and a gene- rous spirit . Mr ...
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... any one who has walked in this garden , who was not struck with that part of it which I have here mentioned . As for myself , you will find , by the account which I have already given you , that my 24 THE SPECTATOR .
... any one who has walked in this garden , who was not struck with that part of it which I have here mentioned . As for myself , you will find , by the account which I have already given you , that my 24 THE SPECTATOR .
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account which I have already given you , that my compositions in gardening are altogether after the Pindaric manner , and run into the beautiful wildness of nature , without affecting the nicer elegancies of art . What I am now going to ...
account which I have already given you , that my compositions in gardening are altogether after the Pindaric manner , and run into the beautiful wildness of nature , without affecting the nicer elegancies of art . What I am now going to ...
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... given very little entertainment to one less turned to reflection than I was but it was a pleasing speculation to re- mark on the happiness of a life , in which things of no moment give occasion of hope , self - satisfaction , and ...
... given very little entertainment to one less turned to reflection than I was but it was a pleasing speculation to re- mark on the happiness of a life , in which things of no moment give occasion of hope , self - satisfaction , and ...
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Page 158 - Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere: For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial spirits in bondage, nor the abyss Long under darkness cover.
Page 307 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 306 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 308 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 76 - 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 78 - My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Page 69 - Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Page 99 - If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Page 261 - When you glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as you can : for even yet will he far exceed. And when you exalt him, put forth all your strength and be not weary; for you can never go far enough.
Page 100 - They are, indeed, so disseminated through all the trading parts of the world, that they are become the instruments by which the most distant nations converse with one another, and by which mankind are knit together in a general correspondence. They are like the pegs and nails in a great building, which, though they are but little valued in themselves, are absolutely necessary to keep the whole frame together.