The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... give him an opportunity to break his mind . 66 “ I am , Sir , your humble servant , " MARY COMFIT . If I observe he cannot speak , I'll give him time to recover him- self , and ask him how he does . " " DEAR SIR , " I BEG you to print ...
... give him an opportunity to break his mind . 66 “ I am , Sir , your humble servant , " MARY COMFIT . If I observe he cannot speak , I'll give him time to recover him- self , and ask him how he does . " " DEAR SIR , " I BEG you to print ...
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... give my to me lady , and to Mr. Aysenby , and to madam norton , March , the 19th ; 1706. " * In some counties 20 , in some 24 , and in others 30 acres of land . See No. 324 , where this letter is given imperfectly . " This is for madam ...
... give my to me lady , and to Mr. Aysenby , and to madam norton , March , the 19th ; 1706. " * In some counties 20 , in some 24 , and in others 30 acres of land . See No. 324 , where this letter is given imperfectly . " This is for madam ...
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... give the moral of this discourse in another paper . BUDGELL . X. No. 332. FRIDAY , MARCH 21 , 1712 . -Minus aptus acutis Naribus horum hominum- HOR . 1 , SAT . III . 29 . He cannot bear the raillery of the age . " DEAR SHORT FACE ...
... give the moral of this discourse in another paper . BUDGELL . X. No. 332. FRIDAY , MARCH 21 , 1712 . -Minus aptus acutis Naribus horum hominum- HOR . 1 , SAT . III . 29 . He cannot bear the raillery of the age . " DEAR SHORT FACE ...
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... give him a suitable idea of so great an action . With what art has the poet represented the whole body of the earth trembling , even before it was created ! " All heav'n resounded ; and had earth been then All earth had to its centre ...
... give him a suitable idea of so great an action . With what art has the poet represented the whole body of the earth trembling , even before it was created ! " All heav'n resounded ; and had earth been then All earth had to its centre ...
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... give an account of the particular dances of the Greeks and Romans , whether religious , warlike , or civil ; and taken particular notice of that part of dancing relating to the ancient stage , in which the pantomimes had so great a ...
... give an account of the particular dances of the Greeks and Romans , whether religious , warlike , or civil ; and taken particular notice of that part of dancing relating to the ancient stage , in which the pantomimes had so great a ...
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acquaintance action Adam and Eve ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable angels appear Aurengzebe bagnio beautiful behaviour behold called Callisthenes character cheerfulness Cicero circumstances colours consider conversation creature delight desire discourse endeavour entertainment eyes fancy father favour fortune gentleman give grace hand happy heart heaven Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad imagination Jupiter kind lady learning letter live look looking-glass mankind manner Margaret Clark matter Menippus Milton mind modesty Mohocks moral nature never night obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular passed passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch poem poet present racter reader reason received ROSCOMMON Sempronia sight SIR ROGER soul speak SPECTATOR spirit STEELE take notice tell thee things thou thought tion told town Turnus VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words writing yard land young
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Página 100 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 445 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 392 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 37 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 428 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 135 - And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand.
Página 270 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision...
Página 428 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Página 269 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 271 - ... and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.