The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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Página 74
... CYNTHIO and Flavia are persons of distinction in this town , who have been lovers these ten months last past , and ... Cynthio has been secretly one of her adorers . Lætitia has been the finest woman in town these three months , and so ...
... CYNTHIO and Flavia are persons of distinction in this town , who have been lovers these ten months last past , and ... Cynthio has been secretly one of her adorers . Lætitia has been the finest woman in town these three months , and so ...
Página 75
... Cynthio was musing yesterday in the piazza in Covent - garden , and was saying to himself that he was a very ill man to go on in visit- ing and professing love to Flavia , when his heart was enthralled to another . It is an infirmity ...
... Cynthio was musing yesterday in the piazza in Covent - garden , and was saying to himself that he was a very ill man to go on in visit- ing and professing love to Flavia , when his heart was enthralled to another . It is an infirmity ...
Página 76
... Cynthio who passed by , he should at first be loth to own it was , but upon im- portunity confess it . There needed not much search into that part of the town to find a well - dressed hussey fit for the purpose Cynthio designed her . As ...
... Cynthio who passed by , he should at first be loth to own it was , but upon im- portunity confess it . There needed not much search into that part of the town to find a well - dressed hussey fit for the purpose Cynthio designed her . As ...
Página 77
... CYNTHIO . As soon as Robin arrived with this , Flavia an swered : DEAR CYNTHIO , ' I HAVE walked a turn or two in my an- tichamber since I writ to you , and have recovered myself from an impertinent fit which you ought to forgive me ...
... CYNTHIO . As soon as Robin arrived with this , Flavia an swered : DEAR CYNTHIO , ' I HAVE walked a turn or two in my an- tichamber since I writ to you , and have recovered myself from an impertinent fit which you ought to forgive me ...
Página 78
... CYNTHIO . ' Robin ran back and brought for answer : ' EXACT Sir , that are at Will's coffee- house six minutes after ... Cynthio only looked at the clock , taking snuff , and writ two or three words on the top of the letter when he gave ...
... CYNTHIO . ' Robin ran back and brought for answer : ' EXACT Sir , that are at Will's coffee- house six minutes after ... Cynthio only looked at the clock , taking snuff , and writ two or three words on the top of the letter when he gave ...
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acquaintance admired Æneid æther affected agreeable Alexandrinus Ann Boleyn appear arise attend Basilius Valentinus beautiful behaviour behold body Callisthenes character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation creature Cynthio dæmons delight Dinocrates discourse DRYDEN endeavour entertainment eyes fancy father favour gentleman give Gloriana grace hand happy heart honour humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination infirmary JULY July 14 June 24 Jupiter kind lady letter live look lover mankind manner matter Menippus mind nation nature neral never objects observed OVID paper particular pass passions Penthesilea Pentheus perfection persons pitch the bar pleasant pleased pleasure poet poetry present racter raise reader reason received reflection scenes secret Sempronia sight soul SPECTATOR spirits temper Thermodon thing thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words writing
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Página 131 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision...
Página 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 daylight in the mind, and fills it with...
Página 199 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Página 132 - Besides, the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage above those of the understanding, that they are more obvious, and more easy to be acquired: it is but opening the eye, and the scene enters...
Página 73 - ... shame; then shall you see either mine innocence cleared, your suspicion and conscience satisfied, the ignominy and slander of the world stopped, or my guilt openly declared.
Página 262 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Página 133 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Página 84 - Sedley* has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; liaise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day.
Página 149 - They have a word, it seems, in their language, by which they express the particular beauty of a plantation that thus strikes the imagination at first sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect.
Página 141 - One of the final causes of our delight in any thing that is great may be this. The Supreme Author of our being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its last, adequate and proper happiness. Because therefore a great part of our happiness must arise from the contemplation of his being, that he might give our souls a just relish of such a contemplation, he has made them naturally delight in the apprehension of what is great or unlimited.