The Spectator, Volumen10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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Página 41
... rule , I promise them they shall awake into health and cheerfulness , and be capable of recounting with delight those glorious moments , wherein the mind has been indulging itself in such luxury of thought , such noble hurry of ...
... rule , I promise them they shall awake into health and cheerfulness , and be capable of recounting with delight those glorious moments , wherein the mind has been indulging itself in such luxury of thought , such noble hurry of ...
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... rule , " that from the similitudes of thoughts and passions of one man to the thoughts and passions of another , whosoever looks into himself , and considers what he doth , when he thinks , hopes , fears , & c . and upon what grounds ...
... rule , " that from the similitudes of thoughts and passions of one man to the thoughts and passions of another , whosoever looks into himself , and considers what he doth , when he thinks , hopes , fears , & c . and upon what grounds ...
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... rule among these gentlemen to fall upon a play , not because it is ill written , but because it takes . Several of them lay it down as a maxim , that whatever dramatic performance has a long run , must of necessity be good for nothing ...
... rule among these gentlemen to fall upon a play , not because it is ill written , but because it takes . Several of them lay it down as a maxim , that whatever dramatic performance has a long run , must of necessity be good for nothing ...
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... rules of art than in adhering to them ; and , 2dly , That 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 ...
... rules of art than in adhering to them ; and , 2dly , That 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 ...
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... rule of the stage obs than any production of a modern critic , where is not any one of them violated ! Shakespeare w deed born with all the seeds of poetry , and m compared to the stone in Pyrrhus's ring , whic Pliny tells us , had the ...
... rule of the stage obs than any production of a modern critic , where is not any one of them violated ! Shakespeare w deed born with all the seeds of poetry , and m compared to the stone in Pyrrhus's ring , whic Pliny tells us , had the ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.