The Spectator, Volum 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Side 15
... sight of those objects which were to affect him by that Being who knows the in- frame of a soul , and how to please and ravish it its most secret powers and faculties . It is to majestic presence of God we may apply those iful ...
... sight of those objects which were to affect him by that Being who knows the in- frame of a soul , and how to please and ravish it its most secret powers and faculties . It is to majestic presence of God we may apply those iful ...
Side 16
... sight and imagination , though it is high- ly probable that our other senses may here likewise enjoy their highest gratifications . There is nothing which more ravishes and transports the soul than harmony ; and we have great reason to ...
... sight and imagination , though it is high- ly probable that our other senses may here likewise enjoy their highest gratifications . There is nothing which more ravishes and transports the soul than harmony ; and we have great reason to ...
Side 35
... more affected with the prospect of her green vallies than thou wouldst be with the sight of her person ? The lowings of my herds , and the bleat- ings of my flocks , make a pleasant echo in No. 585 . 35 THE SPECTATOR .
... more affected with the prospect of her green vallies than thou wouldst be with the sight of her person ? The lowings of my herds , and the bleat- ings of my flocks , make a pleasant echo in No. 585 . 35 THE SPECTATOR .
Side 46
... sight to be very small , but was amazed to find , that as I looked stedfastly upon it , it grew still larger . It was the heart of Melissa , a noted prude , who lives the next door to me . " I shew you this , says the phantom , because ...
... sight to be very small , but was amazed to find , that as I looked stedfastly upon it , it grew still larger . It was the heart of Melissa , a noted prude , who lives the next door to me . " I shew you this , says the phantom , because ...
Side 51
... sight of persons in distress , and satisfaction of mind which is the consequence of ing removed them into a happier state , are instead a thousand arguments to prove such a thing as a nterested benevolence . Did pity proceed from it ...
... sight of persons in distress , and satisfaction of mind which is the consequence of ing removed them into a happier state , are instead a thousand arguments to prove such a thing as a nterested benevolence . Did pity proceed from it ...
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ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
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Side 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Side 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Side 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Side 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Side 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Side 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Side 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Side 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.