The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... virtues under the charac- ter of men and women ; so I , who am a Spectator in the world , may perhaps sometimes make use of the names of the actors on the stage , to repre- sent or admonish those who transact affairs in the world . When ...
... virtues under the charac- ter of men and women ; so I , who am a Spectator in the world , may perhaps sometimes make use of the names of the actors on the stage , to repre- sent or admonish those who transact affairs in the world . When ...
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... virtue's fair disguise , And in her borrow'd form escapes inquiring eyes . MR . LOCKE , in his treatise of human under- standing , has spent two chapters upon the abuse of words . The first and most palpable abuse of words , he says ...
... virtue's fair disguise , And in her borrow'd form escapes inquiring eyes . MR . LOCKE , in his treatise of human under- standing , has spent two chapters upon the abuse of words . The first and most palpable abuse of words , he says ...
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... virtue in the son . I take assurance to be the faculty of possessing a man's self , or of saying and doing indifferent things without any uneasiness or emotion in the mind . That which generally gives a man assurance is a mo- derate ...
... virtue in the son . I take assurance to be the faculty of possessing a man's self , or of saying and doing indifferent things without any uneasiness or emotion in the mind . That which generally gives a man assurance is a mo- derate ...
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... Virtue is the most proper method to give a man a becoming assurance in his words and actions . Guilt always seeks to shelter itself in one of the extremes , and is sometimes attended with both . X. No. 374 . FRIDAY , MAY 9. By Steele ...
... Virtue is the most proper method to give a man a becoming assurance in his words and actions . Guilt always seeks to shelter itself in one of the extremes , and is sometimes attended with both . X. No. 374 . FRIDAY , MAY 9. By Steele ...
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... virtue ? Do it immediately . Can you visit a sick friend ? Will it revive him to see you enter , and suspend your ... virtues and diversions as these are mentioned , because they occur to all men . But every man is sufficiently convinced ...
... virtue ? Do it immediately . Can you visit a sick friend ? Will it revive him to see you enter , and suspend your ... virtues and diversions as these are mentioned , because they occur to all men . But every man is sufficiently convinced ...
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acquaintance action Addison Æneid æther affected agreeable Anne Boleyn appear arise atheists beautiful behaviour behold Cæsar Callisthenes Chap character charms cheerfulness colours consider conversation CORNELIUS NEPOS Cotton Library creature Cynthio dæmon dauphin of France delight discourse DRYDEN endeavour entertainment eyes faculty fancy fault Fidelio Flavia friendship gentleman give grace GRATIAN hand happy heart honour humble servant ideas Iliad imagination innocence JUNE Jupiter kind ladies letter live look lover mankind manner Menippus mind modesty narch nature never objects observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular passions Pentheus perfection person pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry prince proper racter raise reader reason received reflections Roger de Coverley scenes secret sight sion soul SPECTATOR spirits taste temper thing thought tion town turally VIII VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
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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.