The Spectator, Volumen6Tonson, 1739 |
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Página 16
... Sight , if ever the Name of Ann Boleyn › ⚫ hath been pleafing in your Ears , then let me obtain this . Requeft , and I will fo leave to trouble your Grace any further , with mine earnest Prayers to the Trinity to . have your Grace in ...
... Sight , if ever the Name of Ann Boleyn › ⚫ hath been pleafing in your Ears , then let me obtain this . Requeft , and I will fo leave to trouble your Grace any further , with mine earnest Prayers to the Trinity to . have your Grace in ...
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... Sight ; but the Maid followed , and bid him bring an Answer . CYNTHIO returned as follows . 6 Madam , TH June 4 , Three Afternoon , 1712 . HAT your Maid and the Bearer has seen me very often is very certain ; but I defire to know ...
... Sight ; but the Maid followed , and bid him bring an Answer . CYNTHIO returned as follows . 6 Madam , TH June 4 , Three Afternoon , 1712 . HAT your Maid and the Bearer has seen me very often is very certain ; but I defire to know ...
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... Sight for ever . Ann Heart . the ROBIN had a Crown for his Afternoon's Work ; and this is published to admonish Cecilia to avenge Injury done to Flavia . T Saturday , N ° 399. Saturday , June 7 . H Ut 20 N ° 398 . The SPECTATOR .
... Sight for ever . Ann Heart . the ROBIN had a Crown for his Afternoon's Work ; and this is published to admonish Cecilia to avenge Injury done to Flavia . T Saturday , N ° 399. Saturday , June 7 . H Ut 20 N ° 398 . The SPECTATOR .
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... Sight , And both to Thought HERE the Imagination is warmed with all the Ob jects prefented , and yet there is nothing that is lufcious , or what raises any Idea more loose than that of a beauti- ful Woman fet off to Advantage . The like ...
... Sight , And both to Thought HERE the Imagination is warmed with all the Ob jects prefented , and yet there is nothing that is lufcious , or what raises any Idea more loose than that of a beauti- ful Woman fet off to Advantage . The like ...
Página 47
... Sight of his Miftrefs as fhe is bathing , feem beautifully defcribed in the Original . IF all thofe pretty Images of Rural Nature are loft in the Imitation , yet poflibly you may think fit to let this fupply the Place of a long Letter ...
... Sight of his Miftrefs as fhe is bathing , feem beautifully defcribed in the Original . IF all thofe pretty Images of Rural Nature are loft in the Imitation , yet poflibly you may think fit to let this fupply the Place of a long Letter ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 264 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Página 290 - 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 90 - ... because the imagination can fancy to itself things more great, strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account, it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction.
Página 46 - Turn umbratiles sunt, ut putent in turbido esse quicquid in luce est' ('Some men, like pictures, are fitter for a corner than a full light') ; and I believe such as have a natural bent to solitude are like waters which may be forced into fountains, and exalted to a great height, may make a much nobler figure, and a much louder noise, but after all run more smoothly, equally, and plentifully, in their own natural course upon the ground.
Página 216 - If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The...
Página 15 - Try me, good king : but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges ; yea, let me receive an open trial, for my truth shall fear no open shame...
Página 14 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty, perform your command. " But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded.
Página 266 - AM a widower with but one daughter : she was by nature much inclined to be a romp; and I had no way of educating her, but commanding a young woman, whom I entertained to take care of her, to be very watchful in her care and attendance about her. I am a man of business, and obliged to be much abroad. The neighbours have told me, that in my absence our maid has let in the spruce servants in the neighbourhood to junketings, while my girl played and romped even in the street.
Página 86 - ... in former ages. Such advantages as these help to open a man's thoughts, and to enlarge his imagination, and will therefore have their influence on all kinds of writing, if the author knows how to make right use of them.
Página 71 - ... in the production of a monster (the result of any unnatural mixture,) the breed is incapable of propagating its likeness, and of founding a new order of creatures; so that, unless all animals were allured by the beauty of their own species, generation would be at an end, and the earth unpeopled.