The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... DRYDEN . I HAVE received private advice from some of my correspondents , that if I would give my paper a general run , I should take care to season it with scandal . I have indeed observed of late , that few writings sell which are not ...
... DRYDEN . I HAVE received private advice from some of my correspondents , that if I would give my paper a general run , I should take care to season it with scandal . I have indeed observed of late , that few writings sell which are not ...
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... Dryden's translation : " Propp'd on his lance the pensive hero stood , " And heard and saw , unmov'd , the mourning crowd . The fam'd physician tucks his robes around , With ready hands , and hastens to the wound . With gentle touches ...
... Dryden's translation : " Propp'd on his lance the pensive hero stood , " And heard and saw , unmov'd , the mourning crowd . The fam'd physician tucks his robes around , With ready hands , and hastens to the wound . With gentle touches ...
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... DRYDEN . 6 6 A LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot , Father , ' says he , you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world . ' ' True son , ' said the hermit , but what is thy con- dition if ...
... DRYDEN . 6 6 A LEWD young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot , Father , ' says he , you are in a very miserable condition if there is not another world . ' ' True son , ' said the hermit , but what is thy con- dition if ...
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... DRYDEN . THERE has been very great reason , on several accounts , for the learned world to endeavour at settling what it was that might be said to compose personál identity . 6 Mr. Locke , after having premised that the word person ...
... DRYDEN . THERE has been very great reason , on several accounts , for the learned world to endeavour at settling what it was that might be said to compose personál identity . 6 Mr. Locke , after having premised that the word person ...
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... DRYDEN . I CONSIDERED in my two last letters that awful and tremendous subject , the ubiquity or om- nipresence of the Divine Being . I have shewn that he is equally present in all places throughout the whole extent of infinite space ...
... DRYDEN . I CONSIDERED in my two last letters that awful and tremendous subject , the ubiquity or om- nipresence of the Divine Being . I have shewn that he is equally present in all places throughout the whole extent of infinite space ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admirer Æneid agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty blót body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy fear fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady letter light lived lives single look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbouring never night notions NOVEMBER 15 observed occasion OCTOBER 20 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason received roundhead scene secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR steward tell tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah Tom Tyler trees truth verses VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 114 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Seite 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Seite 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
Seite 62 - 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.
Seite 278 - 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?
Seite 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Seite 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!