The Spectator, Volumen6J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... best Man in Town for carrying a Billet ; the Fel- low has a thin Body , fwift Step , demure Looks , fufficient Senfe , and knows the Town . This Man carried Cinthio's firft Letter to Flavia , and by frequent Errands ever fince , is well ...
... best Man in Town for carrying a Billet ; the Fel- low has a thin Body , fwift Step , demure Looks , fufficient Senfe , and knows the Town . This Man carried Cinthio's firft Letter to Flavia , and by frequent Errands ever fince , is well ...
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... best Course , but will do nothing by Compulfion and Conftraint ; and if we are not fatisfied to go her Way , we are always the greatest Sufferers by it . WHEREVER Nature defigns a Production , she al- ways difpofes Seeds proper for it ...
... best Course , but will do nothing by Compulfion and Conftraint ; and if we are not fatisfied to go her Way , we are always the greatest Sufferers by it . WHEREVER Nature defigns a Production , she al- ways difpofes Seeds proper for it ...
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... best of it . · 6 I am , S I R , Your most obliged , and most humble Servant < Mr. SPECTATOR , TH HE Town being fo well pleafed with the fine Picture of artlefs Love , which Nature infpired the Laplander to paint in the Ode you lately ...
... best of it . · 6 I am , S I R , Your most obliged , and most humble Servant < Mr. SPECTATOR , TH HE Town being fo well pleafed with the fine Picture of artlefs Love , which Nature infpired the Laplander to paint in the Ode you lately ...
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... best Reafon I can give for the Obfervation which feveral have made , that Men of great Genius in the fame way of Writing feldom rife up fingly , but at certain Periods of Time appear together , and in a Body ; as they did at Rome in the ...
... best Reafon I can give for the Obfervation which feveral have made , that Men of great Genius in the fame way of Writing feldom rife up fingly , but at certain Periods of Time appear together , and in a Body ; as they did at Rome in the ...
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... Best among the En- glish . of Emblematical Perfons . PAPER X. WHAT Authors please the Imagination who have not thing to do with Fiction . How Hiftory pleafes the Imagina- tion . How the Authors of the new Philofophy please the I ...
... Best among the En- glish . of Emblematical Perfons . PAPER X. WHAT Authors please the Imagination who have not thing to do with Fiction . How Hiftory pleafes the Imagina- tion . How the Authors of the new Philofophy please the I ...
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Página 259 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 65 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Página 290 - In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Página 15 - ... 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.
Página 290 - 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.
Página 216 - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
Página 93 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Página 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...
Página 218 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.
Página 275 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i