The Spectator, Volume 6Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1712 |
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Pagina 39
... itself into order as it were of course , and the whole work is half done as soon as undertaken . Cicero's genius inclined him to oratory . Virgil's to follow the train of the muses ; they pioufly obeyed the admonition , and were ...
... itself into order as it were of course , and the whole work is half done as soon as undertaken . Cicero's genius inclined him to oratory . Virgil's to follow the train of the muses ; they pioufly obeyed the admonition , and were ...
Pagina 53
... itself too flow and lazy to exert itself into action , it is necessary it should be put in motion by the gentle gales of the passions , which nay preferve it from stagnating and corruption ; for they are necessary to the health of ...
... itself too flow and lazy to exert itself into action , it is necessary it should be put in motion by the gentle gales of the passions , which nay preferve it from stagnating and corruption ; for they are necessary to the health of ...
Pagina 57
... itself in a great writer , from what he is when he finds it delivered by a person of an ordinary genius . For there is as much difference in apprehending a thought clothed in Cicero's language , and that of a common author , as in ...
... itself in a great writer , from what he is when he finds it delivered by a person of an ordinary genius . For there is as much difference in apprehending a thought clothed in Cicero's language , and that of a common author , as in ...
Pagina 65
... itself over an infinite mul- titude of bodies , comprehends the largest figures , and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe . It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the ...
... itself over an infinite mul- titude of bodies , comprehends the largest figures , and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe . It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the ...
Pagina 69
... itself cader a fort of confinement , when the light is pent up in a narrow compass , and shortned on every fide by the neighbourhood of walls or moun- tains . On the contrary , a spacious horizon is an image of liberty , where the eye ...
... itself cader a fort of confinement , when the light is pent up in a narrow compass , and shortned on every fide by the neighbourhood of walls or moun- tains . On the contrary , a spacious horizon is an image of liberty , where the eye ...
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