The Spectator, Band 5Tonson, 1739 |
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... neral would difcourage Spies . The Enemy would easily furprise him whom they knew had no Intelligence of their Motions . It is fo far otherwife with me , that I acknowledge I permit a She - Slanderer or two in every Quarter of the Town ...
... neral would difcourage Spies . The Enemy would easily furprise him whom they knew had no Intelligence of their Motions . It is fo far otherwife with me , that I acknowledge I permit a She - Slanderer or two in every Quarter of the Town ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Affurance againſt agreeable alfo Angels arife Aurengzebe Bagnio beautiful becauſe beft Behaviour beſt chearful Chearfulneſs Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation defcribes Defcription Defign defire Difcourfe faid fame fays fecond feems felf felves feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeak Friend ftill fuch Gentleman give greateſt Happineſs Heaven himſelf Homer Honour Houſe humble Servant Imagination Inftance juft Jupiter Lady laft laſt lefs live loft look Love Mafter Mankind manner Menippus Milton Mind modeft moft moſt muft muſt Nature never Night obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Perfon pleafing pleaſed Pleaſure Poem Poet prefent publick racter radife raiſe Reader Reaſon Refpect reft reprefented rife ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir ROGER ſpeak SPECTATOR Spirit tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thro tion uſe Virg Virtue whofe whole World
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 244 - Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.
Seite 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Seite 80 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Seite 232 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks ! ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Seite 26 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. " Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field : let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth.
Seite 155 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Seite 132 - Particularly as to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world : it has less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard in it...
Seite 29 - I do not remember to have met with any so finely drawn, and so conformable to the notions which are given of them in scripture, as this in Milton. After having...
Seite 20 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Seite 79 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.