The Spectator, Svazek 6J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Strana 3
... give this application a more private and particular turn , in defiring your Lordfhip would continue your fa- vour and patronage to me , as You are a gentleman of the most polite literature , and perfectly accom- plished in the knowledge ...
... give this application a more private and particular turn , in defiring your Lordfhip would continue your fa- vour and patronage to me , as You are a gentleman of the most polite literature , and perfectly accom- plished in the knowledge ...
Strana 8
... give him her answer in June . Thyrfis acquaints me , that when he defired Sylvia to take a walk in the fields , she ... gives over her love - labour'd fong , as Milton phrafes it , the bloffoms are fallen , and the beds of flowers fwept ...
... give him her answer in June . Thyrfis acquaints me , that when he defired Sylvia to take a walk in the fields , she ... gives over her love - labour'd fong , as Milton phrafes it , the bloffoms are fallen , and the beds of flowers fwept ...
Strana 11
... gives a very odd turn to the intellectuals of the captivated perfon , and very different from that way of thinking ... give that melancholy tincture- to the most fanguine complexion , which this gentle- ⚫ man calls an inclination to ...
... gives a very odd turn to the intellectuals of the captivated perfon , and very different from that way of thinking ... give that melancholy tincture- to the most fanguine complexion , which this gentle- ⚫ man calls an inclination to ...
Strana 22
... give a juft attention to both of them , fo far as they may tend to the improvement of one , and the diminution of the other . Plutarch has written an effay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies , and , among the good ...
... give a juft attention to both of them , fo far as they may tend to the improvement of one , and the diminution of the other . Plutarch has written an effay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies , and , among the good ...
Strana 27
... give my fair readers a caution against it , having , to my great concern , obferved the waift of a Platonist lately fwell to a roundness which is inconsistent with that philofophy . B 2 Tuesday , N ° 401 Tuesday , June 10 . In amore N ...
... give my fair readers a caution against it , having , to my great concern , obferved the waift of a Platonist lately fwell to a roundness which is inconsistent with that philofophy . B 2 Tuesday , N ° 401 Tuesday , June 10 . In amore N ...
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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...