The Spectator, Svazek 6J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Strana 2
... fame time that it heightened her Majefty's favour to all who had the happinefs of having it convey'd through your hands . A fecretary of state , in the interest of mankind , joined with that of his fellow - fubjects , ac- complished ...
... fame time that it heightened her Majefty's favour to all who had the happinefs of having it convey'd through your hands . A fecretary of state , in the interest of mankind , joined with that of his fellow - fubjects , ac- complished ...
Strana 13
... fame common lot . Those who have laid down rules for rhetoric or poetry , advise the writer to work himself up , if poffible to the pitch of forrow which he endeavours to produce in others , There are none therefore who ftir up pity fo ...
... fame common lot . Those who have laid down rules for rhetoric or poetry , advise the writer to work himself up , if poffible to the pitch of forrow which he endeavours to produce in others , There are none therefore who ftir up pity fo ...
Strana 14
... fame account , tho ' this profecution was believed by many to proceed , as the herself intimates , rather from the King's love to Jane Seymour , than from any actual crime in Ann of Bologne . Queen Ann Boleyn's laft letter to King Henry ...
... fame account , tho ' this profecution was believed by many to proceed , as the herself intimates , rather from the King's love to Jane Seymour , than from any actual crime in Ann of Bologne . Queen Ann Boleyn's laft letter to King Henry ...
Strana 23
... fame time be innocent . We should likewise be very apprehenfive of thofe ac- tions which proceed from natural conftitutions , favourite paffions , particular education , or whatever promotes our worldly intereft or advantage . In thefe ...
... fame time be innocent . We should likewise be very apprehenfive of thofe ac- tions which proceed from natural conftitutions , favourite paffions , particular education , or whatever promotes our worldly intereft or advantage . In thefe ...
Strana 35
... fame laws , and fpeak the fame language , are a diftinct people from thofe of Cheapfide , who are like- wife removed from those of the Temple on the one fide , and thofe of Smithfield on the other , by feveral climates and degrees in ...
... fame laws , and fpeak the fame language , are a diftinct people from thofe of Cheapfide , who are like- wife removed from those of the Temple on the one fide , and thofe of Smithfield on the other , by feveral climates and degrees in ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 66 - The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it...