The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... your approbation , which I have already received , have given me so sensible a taste of them , that I can not forbear endeavouring after them as often as I H 2 No. 388 . 89 THE SPECTATOR . 'Beyond all this, we may find another reason ...
... your approbation , which I have already received , have given me so sensible a taste of them , that I can not forbear endeavouring after them as often as I H 2 No. 388 . 89 THE SPECTATOR . 'Beyond all this, we may find another reason ...
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... on his fragrant boughs reclin'd my head . I pull'd the golden fruit with eager haste ; Sweet was the fruit , and pleasing to the taste ; With sparkling wine he crown'd the bowl , With gentle 90 No. 388 . THE SPECTATOR .
... on his fragrant boughs reclin'd my head . I pull'd the golden fruit with eager haste ; Sweet was the fruit , and pleasing to the taste ; With sparkling wine he crown'd the bowl , With gentle 90 No. 388 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... taste of the creation , and renders it not only pleasing to the imagination but to the understanding . It does not rest in the murmur of brooks , and the melody of birds , in the shade of groves and woods , or in the embroidery of ...
... taste of the creation , and renders it not only pleasing to the imagination but to the understanding . It does not rest in the murmur of brooks , and the melody of birds , in the shade of groves and woods , or in the embroidery of ...
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... odious to all who have merit enough to attract regard . It is in this taste that the scenery is so beauti- fully ordered in the description which Antony makes , in the dialogue between him and Dola- bella No. 400 . 141 THE SPECTATOR .
... odious to all who have merit enough to attract regard . It is in this taste that the scenery is so beauti- fully ordered in the description which Antony makes , in the dialogue between him and Dola- bella No. 400 . 141 THE SPECTATOR .
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... taste as the utmost perfection of an accomplished man . As this word arises very often in conversation , I shall endeavour to give some account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are possessed of it , and how we ...
... taste as the utmost perfection of an accomplished man . As this word arises very often in conversation , I shall endeavour to give some account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are possessed of it , and how we ...
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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.