The Spectator: A Digest-index

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G. Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1892 - Počet stran: 178
 

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Strana 119 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the Preface to his Works, that Wit and fine Writing doth not consist so much in advancing Things that are new, as in giving Things that are known an agreeahle Turn. It is impossihle for us, who
Strana viii - a potencie of life in them to he as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a violl, the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that
Strana 25 - Were all books reduced to their quintessence, many a bulky Author would make his appearance in a penny paper : there would be scarce such a thing in Nature as a Folio. The works of an age would be contained on a few shelves, not to mention millions of volumes that would be utterly annihilated.
Strana 119 - Art of Poetry, he will find hut very few Precepts in it, which he may not meet with' in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known hy all the Poets of the Augustan Age. His Way of expressing and applying them, not his Invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Strana 61 - endeavours to live according to the Dictates of Virtue and right Reason, has two perpetual Sources of Cheerfulness ; in the Consideration of his own Nature, and of that Being on whom he has a Dependance. If he looks into himself, he cannot hut rejoice in that Existence, which is so lately
Strana 12 - moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul ; That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant husiness to a future day '. That task, which as we follow, or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise : Which done, the poorest can no wants endure, And which not done, the richest must he poor.
Strana 69 - to the Enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous Friend. It eases and unloads the Mind, clears and improves the Understanding, engenders Thoughts and Knowledge, animates Virtue and good Resolution. sooths and allays the Passions, and fmds Employment for most of the vacant Hours of Life.
Strana 114 - in Criticism, Morality, or in any Art or Science, which have not heen touched upon hy others. We have little else left us, hut to represent the common Sense of Mankind in more strong, more heautiful, or more uncommon Lights If a Reader examines Horace's " Art of Poetry,
Strana 10 - the Imagination, as to dispose some Persons to sink under the Consideration of the great Length of the first Part of this Duration, and of the great Distance of that second Duration which is to succeed it. The Mind, I say, might give it self up to that Happiness which is at Hand, considering that
Strana 53 - our way almost every Day of our Lives. A Man has frequent Opportunities of mitigating the Fierceness of a Party; of doing Justice to the Character of a deserving Man ; of softning the Envious, quieting the Angry, and rectifying the Prejudiced ; which are all of them

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