The Spectator, Band 6J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... happiness or mifery we are ca- pable of receiving from the imagination only . We have already feen the influence that one man has over the fancy of another , and with what ease he con- veys into it a variety of imagery ; how great a ...
... happiness or mifery we are ca- pable of receiving from the imagination only . We have already feen the influence that one man has over the fancy of another , and with what ease he con- veys into it a variety of imagery ; how great a ...
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... happiness to that of hereafter . In this fweet retirement I naturally fell into the repetition of fome lines out of a poem of Milton's , which he in- titles Il Penferofo , the ideas of which were exquifitely fuited to my prefent ...
... happiness to that of hereafter . In this fweet retirement I naturally fell into the repetition of fome lines out of a poem of Milton's , which he in- titles Il Penferofo , the ideas of which were exquifitely fuited to my prefent ...
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... happiness to be a contributor to this ⚫ little religious inftitution of innocents , and am fure I never difpofed of money more to my fatisfaction and advantage . The inward joy I find in myfelf , and the good - will I bear to mankind ...
... happiness to be a contributor to this ⚫ little religious inftitution of innocents , and am fure I never difpofed of money more to my fatisfaction and advantage . The inward joy I find in myfelf , and the good - will I bear to mankind ...
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... happiness to be educated in ⚫ focieties of great and eminent men . Their inftructions and examples are of extraordinary advantage . It is highly proper to inftil fuch a reverence of the govern- ' ing perfons , and concern for the ...
... happiness to be educated in ⚫ focieties of great and eminent men . Their inftructions and examples are of extraordinary advantage . It is highly proper to inftil fuch a reverence of the govern- ' ing perfons , and concern for the ...
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... happiness of Ik knowing to whom I amobliged for the present I " received the fecond of April . I am heartily forry it did 66 not come to hand the day before ; for I can't but think " it very hard upon people to lose their jeft , that ...
... happiness of Ik knowing to whom I amobliged for the present I " received the fecond of April . I am heartily forry it did 66 not come to hand the day before ; for I can't but think " it very hard upon people to lose their jeft , that ...
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Seite 66 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation. Such wide and undetermined prospects are as pleasing to the fancy as the speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding.
Seite 298 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Seite 14 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.
Seite 86 - But this is certain, that a noble writer should be born with this faculty in its full strength and vigour, so as to be able to receive lively ideas from outward objects, to retain them long, and to range them together, upon occasion, in such figures and representations, as are most likely to hit the fancy of the reader.
Seite 220 - Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be derived upon us, is the gift of Him who is the great Author of Good, and Father of Mercies.
Seite 71 - He has annexed a secret pleasure to the idea of any thing that is new or uncommon, that he might encourage us in the pursuit after knowledge, and engage us to search into the wonders of his creation ; for every new idea brings such a pleasure along with it as rewards any pains we have taken in its acquisition, and consequently serves as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries.
Seite 15 - Grace may be freed from an open censure, and mine offence being so lawfully proved, your Grace is at liberty, both before God and man, not only to execute worthy punishment on me as an unlawful wife, but to follow your affection, already...
Seite 15 - ... of 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 69 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Seite 66 - The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it...