The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... idea people ordinarily have of what we call a high spirit . It is far from greatness of spirit to persist in the wrong in any thing ; nor is it a diminution of great- ness of spirit to have been in the wrong . N ° 382 . 9 SPECTATOR .
... idea people ordinarily have of what we call a high spirit . It is far from greatness of spirit to persist in the wrong in any thing ; nor is it a diminution of great- ness of spirit to have been in the wrong . N ° 382 . 9 SPECTATOR .
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... ideas in us by the delightful- ness of their appearance . Fountains , lakes , and rivers , are as refreshing to the imagination , as to the soil through which they pass . There are writers of great distinction , who have made it an ...
... ideas in us by the delightful- ness of their appearance . Fountains , lakes , and rivers , are as refreshing to the imagination , as to the soil through which they pass . There are writers of great distinction , who have made it an ...
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... idea of green , fall upon the eye in such a due proportion , that they give the animal spirits their proper play , and , by keeping up the struggle in a just balance , excite a very pleasing and agreeable sensation . Let the cause be ...
... idea of green , fall upon the eye in such a due proportion , that they give the animal spirits their proper play , and , by keeping up the struggle in a just balance , excite a very pleasing and agreeable sensation . Let the cause be ...
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... ideas so exquisitely soft and tender , that I could not help making this para- phrase of it ; which , now it is done , I can as little forbear sending to you . Some marks of your ap- probation which I have already received , have given ...
... ideas so exquisitely soft and tender , that I could not help making this para- phrase of it ; which , now it is done , I can as little forbear sending to you . Some marks of your ap- probation which I have already received , have given ...
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... idea of a God is in- nate and co - existent with the mind itself ; or that this truth is so very obvious , that it is discovered by the first exertion of reason in persons of the most ordinary capacities ; or lastly , that it has been ...
... idea of a God is in- nate and co - existent with the mind itself ; or that this truth is so very obvious , that it is discovered by the first exertion of reason in persons of the most ordinary capacities ; or lastly , that it has been ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admired Æneid æther affected agreeable ANN BOLEYN appear arise atheists attended beautiful behaviour behold body called Callisthenes charms cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation creature Cynthio dæmons daugh delight desire discourse endeavour entertain eyes fancy favour Fidelio Flavia gentleman give Gloriana grace hand happy heart honour humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination infirmary innocent James Miller July 14 JUNE Jupiter kind lady letter live look lover mankind manner matter Menippus ment mind nature never niscience objects observed occasion OVID paper particular passed passions Penthesilea perfection persons pitch the bar pleased pleasure poet poetry portunity present racter reader reason received reflections scenes secret Sempronia sense shew sight soul SPECTATOR spirits taste temper thing thought tion town ture VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 270 - 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 71 - Try me, good king : but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges ; yea, let me receive an open trial, for my truth shall fear no open shame...
Seite 71 - But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine...
Seite 2 - 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 128 - OUR 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 129 - There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination. I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words, as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculations, that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I proceed upon.
Seite 131 - There are, indeed, but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
Seite 70 - 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...
Seite 140 - ... .Things would make but a poor appearance to the eye, if we saw them only in their proper figures and motions ; and what reason can we assign for their exciting in us many of those ideas which are different from any thing that exists in the objects themselves, for such are light and colours, were it not to add supernumerary ornaments to the universe, and make it more agreeable to the imagination...
Seite 197 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!