The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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Side 4
... heads together in a very amicable manner , being entrenched under a cloud of our own raising , I took up the last Specta- tor , and casting my eye over it , The Spectator , ' says I , is very witty to - day : ' upon which a lusty ...
... heads together in a very amicable manner , being entrenched under a cloud of our own raising , I took up the last Specta- tor , and casting my eye over it , The Spectator , ' says I , is very witty to - day : ' upon which a lusty ...
Side 7
... head may not construe into private satire and personal reflection . A man who has a good nose at an inuendo smells treason and sedition in the most innocent words that can be put together , and never sees a vice or folly stigmatized but ...
... head may not construe into private satire and personal reflection . A man who has a good nose at an inuendo smells treason and sedition in the most innocent words that can be put together , and never sees a vice or folly stigmatized but ...
Side 19
... head . In his deepest solitude and retirement he knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and perceives within himself such real sen- sations of his presence , as are more delightful than any thing that can be met with ...
... head . In his deepest solitude and retirement he knows that he is in company with the greatest of beings ; and perceives within himself such real sen- sations of his presence , as are more delightful than any thing that can be met with ...
Side 22
... head quar- ters , here you might purchase an impenetrable hel- met , or , in the language of the artist , a cephalic tincture ; if your main body be assaulted , here are various kinds of armour in cases of various onsets . I began to ...
... head quar- ters , here you might purchase an impenetrable hel- met , or , in the language of the artist , a cephalic tincture ; if your main body be assaulted , here are various kinds of armour in cases of various onsets . I began to ...
Side 26
... was so strong in his head , he attributed all my fol- lowers to the inevitable force of my charms : and , from several blushes and side glances , concluded himself the favourite ; and when I used him like 26 N ° 573 ' SPECTATOR .
... was so strong in his head , he attributed all my fol- lowers to the inevitable force of my charms : and , from several blushes and side glances , concluded himself the favourite ; and when I used him like 26 N ° 573 ' SPECTATOR .
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acquaintance admirer Æneid agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty blót body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy fear fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady letter light lived lives single look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbouring never night notions NOVEMBER 15 observed occasion OCTOBER 20 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason received roundhead scene secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR steward tell tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah Tom Tyler trees truth verses VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young
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Side 256 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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 256 - 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 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Side 114 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Side 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Side 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
Side 62 - 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 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Side 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Side 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!