The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volumen7George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Página 20
... from the world , accompanied with religious meditation . When a man thinks of any thing in the darkness of the night , whatever deep impressions it may make in his mind , they are apt to vanish as 20 . 465 : SPECTATOR .
... from the world , accompanied with religious meditation . When a man thinks of any thing in the darkness of the night , whatever deep impressions it may make in his mind , they are apt to vanish as 20 . 465 : SPECTATOR .
Página 21
... things which are of the utmost concern to her . The cares or pleasures of the world strike in with every thought , and a multitude of vicious examples gives a kind of justification to our folly . In our retirements every thing disposes ...
... things which are of the utmost concern to her . The cares or pleasures of the world strike in with every thought , and a multitude of vicious examples gives a kind of justification to our folly . In our retirements every thing disposes ...
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... things . In all the dances he invents , you see he keeps close to the characters he represents . He does not hope to please by mak- ing his performers move in a manner in which no one else ever did , but by motions proper to the ...
... things . In all the dances he invents , you see he keeps close to the characters he represents . He does not hope to please by mak- ing his performers move in a manner in which no one else ever did , but by motions proper to the ...
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... thing is such , that it smiles so impertinently , and affects to please so sillily , that while she dances you see the sim- pleton from head to foot . For you must know ( as trivial as this art is thought to be ) , no one ever was a ...
... thing is such , that it smiles so impertinently , and affects to please so sillily , that while she dances you see the sim- pleton from head to foot . For you must know ( as trivial as this art is thought to be ) , no one ever was a ...
Página 28
... thing in nature that can pre- tend to give elegant delight . It may possibly be proved , that vice is in itself ... things that are truly laud- able and beautiful , from the highest sentiment of the soul to the most indifferent gesture ...
... thing in nature that can pre- tend to give elegant delight . It may possibly be proved , that vice is in itself ... things that are truly laud- able and beautiful , from the highest sentiment of the soul to the most indifferent gesture ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration agreeable appear beauty black tower body cerning city of London city of Westminster coach consider countenance creatures dear death desire discourse divine dream dress endeavour entertainment excellent eyes fancy fortune gentleman give give or keep hand happy head hear heard heart Honeycomb honour hope human humble servant humour husband imaginable infinite kind lady Lætitia late learned letter live look manner marriage married matter mind Mohair nature never obliged observed occasion OCTOBER 14 OVID paper particular passion perfection person pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus present pretty Procris reason Rechteren religion Sebastian of Portugal seems sense sorrow soul SPECTATOR tell thing Thomas Tickell thou thought tion told town Tunbridge VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous whole wife woman women word write young
Pasajes populares
Página 22 - 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 36 - ... rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment ? that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Página 22 - 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 378 - To be, or not to be! that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Página 378 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Página 378 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep...
Página 55 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 96 - WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Página 327 - God, and separate spirits, are made up of the simple ideas we receive from reflection, vg having from what we experiment in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration; of knowledge and power; of pleasure and happiness; and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have, than to be without; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can to the supreme being, we enlarge every one of these with our idea of infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex idea...
Página 55 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.