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Pagina 84
... behold his works with coldness or indifference , and to survey so many beau- ties without a secret satisfaction and complacency . Things would make but a poor appearance to the eye , if we saw them only in their proper figures and mo ...
... behold his works with coldness or indifference , and to survey so many beau- ties without a secret satisfaction and complacency . Things would make but a poor appearance to the eye , if we saw them only in their proper figures and mo ...
Pagina 105
... behold , appear more so upon re- flection , and that the memory heightens the delight- fulness of the original . A Cartesian would account for both these instances in the following manner . The set of ideas which we received from such a ...
... behold , appear more so upon re- flection , and that the memory heightens the delight- fulness of the original . A Cartesian would account for both these instances in the following manner . The set of ideas which we received from such a ...
Pagina 110
... behold pleases the imagination when well described . Why the imagina- tion receives a more exquisite pleasure from the de- scription of what is great , new , or beautiful . The pleasure still heightened , if what is described raises ...
... behold pleases the imagination when well described . Why the imagina- tion receives a more exquisite pleasure from the de- scription of what is great , new , or beautiful . The pleasure still heightened , if what is described raises ...
Pagina 142
... behold the wand'ring moon , Riding near her highest noon , Like one that hath been led astray , Through the heaven's wide pathless way , And oft , as if her head she bow'd , Stooping through a fleecy cloud . " Then let some strange ...
... behold the wand'ring moon , Riding near her highest noon , Like one that hath been led astray , Through the heaven's wide pathless way , And oft , as if her head she bow'd , Stooping through a fleecy cloud . " Then let some strange ...
Pagina 148
... Behold , my dearest Alexandrinus , the effect of what was propagated in nine months . 7 I This story of Basilius Valentinus is taken from the Am- bassador's Travels of Olearius , book v . We are not to contradict nature , but to follow ...
... Behold , my dearest Alexandrinus , the effect of what was propagated in nine months . 7 I This story of Basilius Valentinus is taken from the Am- bassador's Travels of Olearius , book v . We are not to contradict nature , but to follow ...
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acquainted ADDISON admired Æneid æther agreeable Alexandrinus Ann Boleyn appear attend Basilius Valentinus beautiful behold body Callisthenes character colours consider conversation Cotton library creature Cynthio delight desire discourse dress entertainment Epig eyes fancy female fortune gentleman give Gloriana grace hand happy heart honour hope humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination infirmary James Miller JULY July 14 kind lady letter live look lover mankind manner mind modesty nature never objects obliged observed OVID pain paper particular passed passions Penthesilea Pentheus persons pitch the bar pleasant pleased pleasure Plutus poet poor present reader reading reason received reflection Robert Viner satisfaction secret seems Sempronia sense shew sight soul SPECTATOR STEELE taste Thermodon thing thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words writing young
Populaire passages
Pagina 330 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 366 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Pagina 214 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 323 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Pagina 142 - Softly on my eyelids laid ; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Pagina 367 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Pagina 74 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, 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 he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that...
Pagina 270 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Pagina 366 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 318 - Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and...