The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Seite 224 - Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. HI. ‘Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast, heart shall fear no ill, For thou, 0 Lord, art with me still; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade. Iv. ‘Though
Seite 224 - bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile; The barren wilderness shall smile With sudden greens and herbage crown'd And streams shall murmur all around. C. N° 442. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1712.
Seite 145 - in airy stream Of lively portraiture display'd Softly on my eyelids laid: And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by spirits to mortals' good, Or the unseen genius of the wood.” ‘I reflected then upon the sweet vicissitudes of
Seite 78 - and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that be looks upon the world as it were in another light,
Seite 79 - be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly. A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide