The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volume 2J. Bumstead, 1801 - English imprints |
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actions almoſt anſwer beauty becauſe beſt buſineſs cauſe confequently confider confideration converſation courſe defire deſcribed deſign diſcourſe diſcover diſpoſition diſtance divine endeavour Engliſh eſpecially eſteem eternity exerciſe exiſtence expreſs eyes faculties faid falſe fame fatisfaction fays fecret feem fince firſt fome fomething forrow foul fuch fure give happiness hath heart himſelf honour hope houſe human humour imagination inſtance intereſt itſelf juſt kind laſt leſs live look mankind Mariamne meaſure mind moſt muſt myſelf nature neſs never obſerve occafion ourſelves paffed paffion paſs paſſions perfection perſon pleaſed pleaſure prefence preſent purpoſe queſtion raiſed reaſon repreſented reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſeems ſelf ſenſe ſet ſeveral ſhall Shalum ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR ſpeculation ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtrength ſubject ſuch TATLER thee themſelves theſe thing thoſe thou thought tion uſe virtue whoſe wife words
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 342 - 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.