The Spectator, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... nature , but has fome- thing in it more pleafing and agreeable than what can be met with in fuch an indolent happiness , fuch an indiffer- ence to mankind as that in which the Stoics placed their wifdom . As love is the most delightful ...
... nature , but has fome- thing in it more pleafing and agreeable than what can be met with in fuch an indolent happiness , fuch an indiffer- ence to mankind as that in which the Stoics placed their wifdom . As love is the most delightful ...
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moving fentiments than can be fupplied by the finest ima- gination . Nature on this occafion dictates a thousand paffionate things which cannot be fupplied by art . It is for this reafon that the fhort fpeeches or fentences- which we ...
moving fentiments than can be fupplied by the finest ima- gination . Nature on this occafion dictates a thousand paffionate things which cannot be fupplied by art . It is for this reafon that the fhort fpeeches or fentences- which we ...
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... nature of his meffages with the most exquifite low humour ima- ginable : The firft he obliged Flavia to take , was by complaining to her that he had a wife and three children , and if he did not take that letter , which he was fure ...
... nature of his meffages with the most exquifite low humour ima- ginable : The firft he obliged Flavia to take , was by complaining to her that he had a wife and three children , and if he did not take that letter , which he was fure ...
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... nature , and is the ftanding example , as well as the great guide and inftructor , of those who receive his doctrines . Though thefe two heads cannot be too much infifted upon , I fhall buft just mention them , fince they have been ...
... nature , and is the ftanding example , as well as the great guide and inftructor , of those who receive his doctrines . Though thefe two heads cannot be too much infifted upon , I fhall buft just mention them , fince they have been ...
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... nature : And fuch we may efteem all those in which multitudes of men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as ourfelves . We fhould always act with great cautioufnefs and circumfpection in points , where it is not impoffible that ...
... nature : And fuch we may efteem all those in which multitudes of men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as ourfelves . We fhould always act with great cautioufnefs and circumfpection in points , where it is not impoffible that ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 66 - The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it...