The Spectator, Volume 6W. Wilson, 1778 |
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Æneid agreeable almoſt alſo anſwer appear beautiful becauſe beſt buſineſs cauſe confider converſation courſe cuſtom defire delight deſcription deſign diſcourſe diſcover eaſy Engliſh eyes faid falſe fame fancy fatire fatisfaction fecret feem fight fince firſt fome foul fuch fure give houſe humble ſervant humour imagination intereſt itſelf juſt kind lady laſt leſs look loſe manner maſter mind moſt muſt myſelf nature neceſſary never obſerved occafion ourſelves OVID paffed paffions paper paſs paſſed paſſions perſons pleaſing pleaſure poet preſent propoſed publiſh purpoſe racter raiſe reader reaſon reliſh repreſented reſpect reſt ſaid ſame ſay ſcene ſecond ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſet ſeveral ſex ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhould ſome ſomething ſometimes ſpeak ſpecies SPECTATOR ſpeculations ſpirits ſpring ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtrange ſubject ſuch ſurpriſed taſte themſelves theſe thing thoſe thought tion uſe verſe virtue whoſe words
Populaire passages
Pagina 267 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Pagina 48 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us.
Pagina 15 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Pagina 14 - But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded. And to speak a truth, never prince had wife more loyal in all duty, and in all true affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn...
Pagina 76 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure ; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Pagina 74 - Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys — Cool grots, and living lakes, the flow'ry pride Of meads, and streams that through the valley glide And shady groves that easy sleep invite, And, after toilsome days, a soft repose at night.
Pagina 69 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Pagina 93 - He is at no more expense in a long vista than a short one, and can as easily throw his cascades from a precipice of half a mile high, as from one of twenty yards. He has his choice of the winds, and can turn the course of his rivers in all the variety of meanders that are most delightful to the reader's imagination.
Pagina 71 - He has annexed a secret pleasure to the idea of any thing that is new or uncommon, that he might encourage us in the pursuit after knowledge, and engage us to search into the wonders of his creation ; for every new idea brings such a pleasure along with it as rewards any pains we have taken in its acquisition, and consequently serves as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries.
Pagina 22 - They either do not see our faults, or conceal them from us, or soften them by their representations, after such a manner, that we think them too trivial to be taken notice of. An adversary, on the contrary, makes a stricter search into us, discovers every flaw and imperfection in our tempers, and though his malice may...