The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... mankind . I do not remember that Achates , who is represented as the first favourite , either gives his advice , or strikes a blow , through the whole Æneid . A friendship which makes the least noise is very often most useful ; for ...
... mankind . I do not remember that Achates , who is represented as the first favourite , either gives his advice , or strikes a blow , through the whole Æneid . A friendship which makes the least noise is very often most useful ; for ...
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... mankind , instead of being pleasing . Witty men are apt to imagine they are agreeable as such , and by that means grow the worse compa nions imaginable ; they deride the absent or rally the present in a wrong manner , not knowing that ...
... mankind , instead of being pleasing . Witty men are apt to imagine they are agreeable as such , and by that means grow the worse compa nions imaginable ; they deride the absent or rally the present in a wrong manner , not knowing that ...
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... mankind . The Platos and Ciceros among the ancients ; the Bacons , the Boyles , and the Lockes , among our own countrymen ; are all instances of what I have been saying ; not to mention any of the divines , however celebrated , since ...
... mankind . The Platos and Ciceros among the ancients ; the Bacons , the Boyles , and the Lockes , among our own countrymen ; are all instances of what I have been saying ; not to mention any of the divines , however celebrated , since ...
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... mankind to this great truth ; which I think could not possibly have come to pass , but from one of the three follow- ing reasons : either that the idea of a God is innate and co - existent with the mind itself ; or that this truth is so ...
... mankind to this great truth ; which I think could not possibly have come to pass , but from one of the three follow- ing reasons : either that the idea of a God is innate and co - existent with the mind itself ; or that this truth is so ...
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... mankind , is doing them too great an honour , giving them a figure in the eye of the world , and making people fancy that they have more in them than they really have . As for those persons who have any scheme of religious worship , I ...
... mankind , is doing them too great an honour , giving them a figure in the eye of the world , and making people fancy that they have more in them than they really have . As for those persons who have any scheme of religious worship , I ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaint admired Æneid affected agreeable Alexandrinus Ann Boleyn appear arise attended Basilius Valentinus beautiful beholder body called Callisthenes charms cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation CORNELIUS NEPOS creature Cynthio delight desire discourse easy ac endeavour entertaining eyes faculty fancy father Flavia gentleman give Gloriana grace hand happy heart Honeycomb honour human humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination Julius Cæsar JUNE Jupiter kind lady letter live look lover manner Menippus mind nation nature never objects observed OVID paper particular passed passions Pentheus perfection persons pleasant pleasing pleasure poet poetry present proper racter raise reader reason receive reflections Roger de Coverley satisfaction scenes secret Sempronia sense shew sight sions soul Spanish monarchy SPECTATOR spirits taste temper thing thought tion town ture VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with...
Seite 123 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees...
Seite 184 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Seite 184 - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Seite 243 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Seite 53 - And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, Appear'd, with gay...
Seite 252 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 114 - I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Seite 67 - Your Grace's displeasure, and my imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be mine ancient professed enemy; I no sooner received this message by him than I rightly conceived your meaning; and if, as you say, confessing a truth, indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty perform your command.
Seite 69 - ... where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not (whatsoever the world may think of me) mine innocence shall be openly known, and sufficiently cleared. ' My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace's displeasure...