The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... give my opinion freely , I think that the exhibiting part of the his- tory of mankind in vision , and part in narrative , is as if a history - painter should put in colours one half of his subject , and write down the remain- ing part ...
... give my opinion freely , I think that the exhibiting part of the his- tory of mankind in vision , and part in narrative , is as if a history - painter should put in colours one half of his subject , and write down the remain- ing part ...
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... give Adam an idea of the holy person who was to reinstate human nature in that happiness and per- fection from which ... gives a particular live- liness to this part of the narration .. * I see him , but thou canst not ; with what faith ...
... give Adam an idea of the holy person who was to reinstate human nature in that happiness and per- fection from which ... gives a particular live- liness to this part of the narration .. * I see him , but thou canst not ; with what faith ...
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... gives us of him , under the lowest state of mortification and disappointment . We see him chewing ashes , grovelling in the dust , and loaden with supernumerary pains and torments . On the contrary , our two first parents are comforted ...
... gives us of him , under the lowest state of mortification and disappointment . We see him chewing ashes , grovelling in the dust , and loaden with supernumerary pains and torments . On the contrary , our two first parents are comforted ...
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... give me no reason to repent of the pains I have been at in composing them . L. No. 370. MONDAY , MAY 5. By Steele . Totus mundus agit histrionem . MANY of my fair readers , as well as very gay and well received persons of the other sex ...
... give me no reason to repent of the pains I have been at in composing them . L. No. 370. MONDAY , MAY 5. By Steele . Totus mundus agit histrionem . MANY of my fair readers , as well as very gay and well received persons of the other sex ...
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... give you an account of an honest gentleman of my acquaintance , who upon hearing the character of the wit abovementioned , has himself assumed it ; and endeavoured to convert it to the benefit of mankind . He invited half a dozen of his ...
... give you an account of an honest gentleman of my acquaintance , who upon hearing the character of the wit abovementioned , has himself assumed it ; and endeavoured to convert it to the benefit of mankind . He invited half a dozen of his ...
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Seite 48 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Seite 188 - tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and quench my thirst. CREECB. Ouu sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses: it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Seite 9 - They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Seite 7 - Which he hath sent propitious some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay ; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou. Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence This further consolation yet secure I carry hence ; though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed, By me the promised Seed shall all restore.
Seite 189 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Seite 128 - Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did I at any time so...
Seite 129 - ... mine enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Seite 7 - Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning. High in front...
Seite 206 - Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible, Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush...
Seite 49 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.