The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Bände 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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... PLEASURES MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD . THE English word pleasure is of a very general and indeterminate fignification , denoting what is agreeable either to the body or to the mind : Thus we not only speak of the pleasures of fenfe , but ...
... PLEASURES MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD . THE English word pleasure is of a very general and indeterminate fignification , denoting what is agreeable either to the body or to the mind : Thus we not only speak of the pleasures of fenfe , but ...
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... Pleasure drives actions, even to the point of a person committing suicide, which is seemingly far from pleasure. When the present moment lacks pleasure severely enough, ending all future similar moments would provide him what he seeks ...
... Pleasure drives actions, even to the point of a person committing suicide, which is seemingly far from pleasure. When the present moment lacks pleasure severely enough, ending all future similar moments would provide him what he seeks ...
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... pleasure, especially for the greatest pleasure on offer, the dishes would eventually smell of rot. You might be watching the sun set in Greece, but you would be doing it without a job. Epicurus denies there are two competing motives at ...
... pleasure, especially for the greatest pleasure on offer, the dishes would eventually smell of rot. You might be watching the sun set in Greece, but you would be doing it without a job. Epicurus denies there are two competing motives at ...
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... pleasure [...]. To be sure, as an inducement to coitus, genital pleasure is an essential lubricant in the evolutionary engine of humans.... None would deny, either, that sexual pleasure is a profoundly organic phenomenon, the ...
... pleasure [...]. To be sure, as an inducement to coitus, genital pleasure is an essential lubricant in the evolutionary engine of humans.... None would deny, either, that sexual pleasure is a profoundly organic phenomenon, the ...
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... pleasure from this communication.25 Sexual or aesthetic, and probably more sexual and aesthetic, this sensuality takes pleasure in tension, in its own tension felt not as the lack of an object but as an expansion of a subject. This ...
... pleasure from this communication.25 Sexual or aesthetic, and probably more sexual and aesthetic, this sensuality takes pleasure in tension, in its own tension felt not as the lack of an object but as an expansion of a subject. This ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted acrostics action admiration Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character consider conversation creature desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment eyes fair sex father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest hand happy head hear heart Homer honour hope Hudibras humble servant humour Iliad imagination innocent kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage matter means ment mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Pict Plato pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason Sappho sense sion Sir Roger Socrates soul speak Spectator SPECTATOR,-I spirit tell temper Theodosius thing thor thou thought tion told town turn Virg Virgil virtue whig whole woman women words write yard land young
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Seite 236 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
Seite 236 - But tell me farther,' said he, ' what thou discoverest on it.' ' I see multitudes of people passing over it,' said I, ' and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it : and upon...
Seite 53 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Seite 172 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Seite 237 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it." I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Seite 236 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains. I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and, passing from one thought to another,
Seite 164 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with ; on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Seite 165 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he out-lives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and, though he does not know I have taken...
Seite 437 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Seite 264 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...