The Spectator, Հատոր 6J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Արդյունքներ 55–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... 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 much as those who indite their own fufferings . Grief has a na- turat eloquence ...
... 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 much as those who indite their own fufferings . Grief has a na- turat eloquence ...
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... writing , and own- ing you have not done me the honour fo much as to open my letter , has in it fomething very unaccountable , and alarms one that has had thoughts of paffing his ⚫ days with you . But I am born to admire you with all ...
... writing , and own- ing you have not done me the honour fo much as to open my letter , has in it fomething very unaccountable , and alarms one that has had thoughts of paffing his ⚫ days with you . But I am born to admire you with all ...
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... writers to recover ; them from vice and folly , how much more may those lay a claim to their care and compaffion , who are walking in the paths of death , while they fancy themfelves engaged in a course of virtue ! I fhall endeavour ...
... writers to recover ; them from vice and folly , how much more may those lay a claim to their care and compaffion , who are walking in the paths of death , while they fancy themfelves engaged in a course of virtue ! I fhall endeavour ...
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... writers . . I would therefore propofe the following methods to the confideration of fuch as would find out their fecret faults , and make a true estimate of themselves . In the first place , let them confider well what are the ...
... writers . . I would therefore propofe the following methods to the confideration of fuch as would find out their fecret faults , and make a true estimate of themselves . In the first place , let them confider well what are the ...
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... writing to ⚫ him but by your affiftance . If you can bring him about once more , I promise to fend you all gloves and fa- vours , and fhall defire the favour of Sir ROGER and ⚫ yourself to ftand as god - fathers to my first boy ...
... writing to ⚫ him but by your affiftance . If you can bring him about once more , I promise to fend you all gloves and fa- vours , and fhall defire the favour of Sir ROGER and ⚫ yourself to ftand as god - fathers to my first boy ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 66 - The mind of man naturally hates every thing that looks like a restraint upon it...