The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... perfection was never seen to laugh . Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these exceptions ; it is of a serious and composed nature : it does not throw the mind into a condition impro- per for the present state of humanity , and ...
... perfection was never seen to laugh . Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these exceptions ; it is of a serious and composed nature : it does not throw the mind into a condition impro- per for the present state of humanity , and ...
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... perfection , and consequently an in- crease of happiness ! The consciousness of such a being spreads a perpetual diffusion of joy through the soul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he ...
... perfection , and consequently an in- crease of happiness ! The consciousness of such a being spreads a perpetual diffusion of joy through the soul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he ...
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James Ferguson. ness of spirit to have been in the wrong . Perfection is not the attribute of man , therefore he is not de- graded by the acknowledgment of an imperfection ; but it is the work of little minds to imitate the fortitude of ...
James Ferguson. ness of spirit to have been in the wrong . Perfection is not the attribute of man , therefore he is not de- graded by the acknowledgment of an imperfection ; but it is the work of little minds to imitate the fortitude of ...
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... perfection of human nature , and is the standing example , as well as the great guide and instructor , of those who re- ceive his doctrines . Though these two heads can- not be too much insisted upon , I shall but just men- tion them ...
... perfection of human nature , and is the standing example , as well as the great guide and instructor , of those who re- ceive his doctrines . Though these two heads can- not be too much insisted upon , I shall but just men- tion them ...
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... perfection , as well as for that generous appro- bation he lately gave to an opera of our own coun- try , in which the composer endeavoured to do justice to the beauty of the words , by following that noble example which has been set ...
... perfection , as well as for that generous appro- bation he lately gave to an opera of our own coun- try , in which the composer endeavoured to do justice to the beauty of the words , by following that noble example which has been set ...
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!