The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... consider as an act , the former as an habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth , who are shiect to the greatest depressions of ...
... consider as an act , the former as an habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth , who are shiect to the greatest depressions of ...
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... consider cheerfulness in three lights , with regard to ourselves , to those we converse with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is possessed of this ...
... consider cheerfulness in three lights , with regard to ourselves , to those we converse with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is possessed of this ...
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... consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation , I cannot but look upon it as a con- stant habitual gratitude to the great Author of na- ture . An inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence ...
... consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation , I cannot but look upon it as a con- stant habitual gratitude to the great Author of na- ture . An inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence ...
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... considering the shortness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the name of evils . A good mind may bear up under them with fortitude , with indolence , and with cheerfulness of heart . The tossing ...
... considering the shortness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the name of evils . A good mind may bear up under them with fortitude , with indolence , and with cheerfulness of heart . The tossing ...
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... consider- able a progress , and which will still be receiving an increase of 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 ...
... consider- able a progress , and which will still be receiving an increase of 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 ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
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 day-light in the mind, and fills it with...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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!