The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... matter came necessarily before the king , who com- manded his son , on foot , to lay his right hand on the gentleman's stirrup as he sat on horseback in sight of the whole army , and ask his pardon . When the prince touched his stirrup ...
... matter came necessarily before the king , who com- manded his son , on foot , to lay his right hand on the gentleman's stirrup as he sat on horseback in sight of the whole army , and ask his pardon . When the prince touched his stirrup ...
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... matters : and I would be transmitted to posterity ( for the little share of time such names as mine can live ) , under the character of one who loved his coun- try , and would be thought a good Englishman , as well as a good clergyman ...
... matters : and I would be transmitted to posterity ( for the little share of time such names as mine can live ) , under the character of one who loved his coun- try , and would be thought a good Englishman , as well as a good clergyman ...
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James Ferguson. never had but one opinion of these matters ; and that I think is so reasonable and well - grounded , that I believe I can never have any other . ' Another reason of my publishing these sermons at this time is , that I ...
James Ferguson. never had but one opinion of these matters ; and that I think is so reasonable and well - grounded , that I believe I can never have any other . ' Another reason of my publishing these sermons at this time is , that I ...
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... matter had appeared to us endowed only with those real qualities which it actually possesses , it would have made but a very joyless and un- comfortable figure : and why has Providence given it a power of producing in us such imaginary ...
... matter had appeared to us endowed only with those real qualities which it actually possesses , it would have made but a very joyless and un- comfortable figure : and why has Providence given it a power of producing in us such imaginary ...
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... matter of respect to the world which looks on , is carried on , methinks it is so very easy to be what is in the general called virtuous , that it need not cost one hour's reflection in a month to preserve that appellation . It is ...
... matter of respect to the world which looks on , is carried on , methinks it is so very easy to be what is in the general called virtuous , that it need not cost one hour's reflection in a month to preserve that appellation . It is ...
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!