The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... Objects - Story of Alnaschar , 549 538. On Extravagance in Story - telling - Epitaph in Pancras Church - yard , 558 542. Criticisms on the Spectator - Letter on the Decay of the Club , 563 543. Meditation on the Frame of the Human Body ...
... Objects - Story of Alnaschar , 549 538. On Extravagance in Story - telling - Epitaph in Pancras Church - yard , 558 542. Criticisms on the Spectator - Letter on the Decay of the Club , 563 543. Meditation on the Frame of the Human Body ...
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... object , unless it be still fed with fresh dis- coveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of mira- cles rising up to its view . And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that ...
... object , unless it be still fed with fresh dis- coveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of mira- cles rising up to its view . And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that ...
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Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. to relish it ; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of frui- tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man ...
Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. to relish it ; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of frui- tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man ...
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... object we only find that share of pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears , but to the value our fancies and imaginations set upon it . So ...
... object we only find that share of pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears , but to the value our fancies and imaginations set upon it . So ...
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... object , and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence . The patience and forti- tude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
... object , and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence . The patience and forti- tude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Adam Adam and Eve admired Æneas Æneid agreeable ancient angels appear Aristotle beautiful behold character chearfulness circumstances consider creation critics death delight described discourse discover divine dreams DRYDEN earth endeavoured Enville fable fallen angels fame fancy filled give glorious golden compasses hand happy head heart heaven Homer honour ideas Iliad imagination Jupiter kind king ladies light likewise live look mankind manner Milton mind Mohocks moral nature never night noble observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular passage passion perfection persons pleased pleasure poem poet poetry prince proper reader reason represented ROSCOMMON Satan says sentiments shew sight Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger soul Spectator speech spirit sublime take notice Tatler tells temper thee thing thou thought tion told verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 525 - 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.
Seite 132 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Seite 175 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Seite 123 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Seite 96 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Seite 89 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Seite 100 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Seite 129 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Seite 135 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Seite 118 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.