The Spectator, Band 6W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... virtue , and can now hear me in cold blood . If there are any who have forfeited their innocence , they must . now . confider themselves under that melancholy view ,. in which Chamont regards his fifter , in thofe beautiful lines ...
... virtue , and can now hear me in cold blood . If there are any who have forfeited their innocence , they must . now . confider themselves under that melancholy view ,. in which Chamont regards his fifter , in thofe beautiful lines ...
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... virtue . Without innocence , beauty is un- lovely , and quality contemptible , good - breeding degene rates into wantonnefs , and wit into impudence . It is ob- ferved , that all the virtues are reprefented both by paint- ers and ...
... virtue . Without innocence , beauty is un- lovely , and quality contemptible , good - breeding degene rates into wantonnefs , and wit into impudence . It is ob- ferved , that all the virtues are reprefented both by paint- ers and ...
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... virtues . It is this fatal hy- pocrify , and felf - deceit , which is taken notice of in those words , Who can ... virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the discovery of thofe vices that lurk in the ...
... virtues . It is this fatal hy- pocrify , and felf - deceit , which is taken notice of in those words , Who can ... virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the discovery of thofe vices that lurk in the ...
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... virtues , an inflames his crimes . A wife man fhould give a juft attention to both of them , fo far as they may tend to the improvement of one , and the diminution of the other . Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which man ...
... virtues , an inflames his crimes . A wife man fhould give a juft attention to both of them , fo far as they may tend to the improvement of one , and the diminution of the other . Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which man ...
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... virtues we poffefs that are of a doubtful nature and fuch we may esteem all those in which multitudes of men diffent ... virtue as will turn to ac- count in that great day , when it must ftand the test of infinite wisdom and justice . I ...
... virtues we poffefs that are of a doubtful nature and fuch we may esteem all those in which multitudes of men diffent ... virtue as will turn to ac- count in that great day , when it must ftand the test of infinite wisdom and justice . I ...
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Seite 267 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Seite 48 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us.
Seite 15 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Seite 14 - But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded. And to speak a truth, never prince had wife more loyal in all duty, and in all true affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn...
Seite 76 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure ; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Seite 74 - Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys — Cool grots, and living lakes, the flow'ry pride Of meads, and streams that through the valley glide And shady groves that easy sleep invite, And, after toilsome days, a soft repose at night.
Seite 69 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Seite 93 - He is at no more expense in a long vista than a short one, and can as easily throw his cascades from a precipice of half a mile high, as from one of twenty yards. He has his choice of the winds, and can turn the course of his rivers in all the variety of meanders that are most delightful to the reader's imagination.
Seite 71 - He has annexed a secret pleasure to the idea of any thing that is new or uncommon, that he might encourage us in the pursuit after knowledge, and engage us to search into the wonders of his creation ; for every new idea brings such a pleasure along with it as rewards any pains we have taken in its acquisition, and consequently serves as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries.
Seite 22 - They either do not see our faults, or conceal them from us, or soften them by their representations, after such a manner, that we think them too trivial to be taken notice of. An adversary, on the contrary, makes a stricter search into us, discovers every flaw and imperfection in our tempers, and though his malice may...