The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... perfection of human nature , and is the standing example , as well as the great guide and instructor , of those who receive his doctrines . Though these two heads cannot be too much insisted upon , I shall but just mention them , since ...
... perfection of human nature , and is the standing example , as well as the great guide and instructor , of those who receive his doctrines . Though these two heads cannot be too much insisted upon , I shall but just mention them , since ...
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... perfection of an accomplished man . As this word arises very often in conversation , I shall endeavour to give some account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are pos- sessed of it , and how we may acquire that ...
... perfection of an accomplished man . As this word arises very often in conversation , I shall endeavour to give some account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are pos- sessed of it , and how we may acquire that ...
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... perfection are wholly void of this . One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me , that the greatest pleasure he took in read- ing Virgil , was in examining Æneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a ...
... perfection are wholly void of this . One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me , that the greatest pleasure he took in read- ing Virgil , was in examining Æneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a ...
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... perfection of our sight above our other senses . The pleasures of the imagination arise originally from sight . The pleasures of the imagination divided under two heads . The pleasures of the imagination in some re- spects equal to ...
... perfection of our sight above our other senses . The pleasures of the imagination arise originally from sight . The pleasures of the imagination divided under two heads . The pleasures of the imagination in some re- spects equal to ...
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... perfection , and furnishes out all those scenes that are most apt to delight the ima- gination . Scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus , et fugit urbes . ' HOR . Ep . ii . 1. 2. ver . 77 . To grottos and to groves we run , To ease and ...
... perfection , and furnishes out all those scenes that are most apt to delight the ima- gination . Scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus , et fugit urbes . ' HOR . Ep . ii . 1. 2. ver . 77 . To grottos and to groves we run , To ease and ...
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acquaint ADDISON admirable Æneid æther affected agreeable animal spi Ann Boleyn appear attended Basilius Valentinus beautiful behold Callisthenes character colours consider conversation Cotton library Cynthio delight desire discourse divine endeavour entertainment Epig excellent eyes fancy fortune gentleman give Gloriana grace hand happy heart honour hope humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination James Miller July 14 kind lady letter live look mankind manner mind modesty nature nerals never objects obliged observed OVID paper particular pass passions person pleasant pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus poet poetry poor portunity present racter reader reading reason received reflection Robert Viner ROSCOMMON satisfaction secret Sempronia sense shew sight soul SPECTATOR STEELE taste thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words writing
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Página 330 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 366 - 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 everduring 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.
Página 214 - THE 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 noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 323 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Página 142 - Softly on my eyelids laid ; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Página 367 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Página 74 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that...
Página 270 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 366 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 318 - Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and...