The Spectator, المجلد 5J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1726 |
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الصفحة 99
... just Connection with the Fable . THE eighth Book opens with a beautiful Defcription of the Impreffion which this Difcourfe of the Archangel made on our first Parent . Adam afterwards , by a very natural Curiofity , enquires concerning ...
... just Connection with the Fable . THE eighth Book opens with a beautiful Defcription of the Impreffion which this Difcourfe of the Archangel made on our first Parent . Adam afterwards , by a very natural Curiofity , enquires concerning ...
الصفحة 101
... just and natural than this whole Episode . As our Author knew this Subject could not but be agreeable to his Reader , he would not throw it into the Relation of the fix days Works , but referved it for a diftinct Episode , that he might ...
... just and natural than this whole Episode . As our Author knew this Subject could not but be agreeable to his Reader , he would not throw it into the Relation of the fix days Works , but referved it for a diftinct Episode , that he might ...
الصفحة 115
... just now . You were telling of ? fays Facks I wish I had been so happy as to have come in and heard you , for I have not Words to say what she is : But if an agreeable Height , a modeft Air , a Virgin Shame , and Impatience of being ...
... just now . You were telling of ? fays Facks I wish I had been so happy as to have come in and heard you , for I have not Words to say what she is : But if an agreeable Height , a modeft Air , a Virgin Shame , and Impatience of being ...
الصفحة 122
... be a brave Man as the un- thinking part of Mankind imagine : To dare , is not all that there is in it . The Privateer we were just now talking of , had had Boldness enough to attack his Enemy , but not 122 N ° 50 : The SPECTATOR .
... be a brave Man as the un- thinking part of Mankind imagine : To dare , is not all that there is in it . The Privateer we were just now talking of , had had Boldness enough to attack his Enemy , but not 122 N ° 50 : The SPECTATOR .
الصفحة 136
... just sent me the following Letter . SIR , I " Take the liberty to fend you a fourth Letter upon the Education of Youth : In my laft I gave you my Thought about fome particular Tasks which I con- ceiv'd it might not be amifs to mix with ...
... just sent me the following Letter . SIR , I " Take the liberty to fend you a fourth Letter upon the Education of Youth : In my laft I gave you my Thought about fome particular Tasks which I con- ceiv'd it might not be amifs to mix with ...
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Adam Æneid Affurance againſt agreeable alfo Angels arife Bagnio beautiful becauſe beft Behaviour beſt Chearfulness Circumftances confider Confideration Converfation defcribed Defcription Defign defire Difcourfe dreffed faid fame fays fecond feems felf felves ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeak Friend ftill fuch fure furprized Gentleman give Heav'n Hiftory himſelf Homer Honour Houſe humble Servant ibid Imagination Inftances juft Lady laft live loft look Love Mafter Mankind manner Menippus Milton Mind Modefty moft Mohocks moſt muft muſt Nature never Night obferve occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife particular Paul Lorrain Perfon pleafing pleaſed Pleaſure Poem Poet prefent publick Pyrrhus racters raiſed Reader reafon Refpect reft reprefented rife ſelf Senfe ſhall Sir ROGER ſpeak SPECTATOR Spirit tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thro uſe Virtue whofe whole World
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الصفحة 60 - ... up the entry in good order, the captain and I went in with him, and seated him betwixt us in the pit. As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in...
الصفحة 131 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
الصفحة 77 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
الصفحة 50 - There are indeed so many wonderful strokes of poetry in this book, and such a variety of sublime ideas, that it would have been impossible to have given them a place within the bounds of this paper.
الصفحة 133 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
الصفحة 229 - ... compel us to any thing ; but we will not eat the bread of shame ; and therefore we charge thee not to think of us, but to avoid the snare which is laid for thy virtue. Beware 'of pitying us : it is not so bad as you perhaps have been told.
الصفحة 35 - I'll warrant you,' says Sir Roger; 'you ought to lock up your kings better; they will carry off the body too, if you don't take care.' The glorious names of Henry the Fifth and queen Elizabeth gave the knight great opportunities of shining, and of doing justice to Sir Richard Baker, who...
الصفحة 132 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 116 - Whilst he is capable of changing, we may be forced to retract our opinions. He may forfeit the esteem we have conceived of him, and some time or other appear to us under a different light from what he does at present. In short, as the life of any man cannot be called happy or unhappy, so neither can it be pronounced vicious, or virtuous, before the conclusion of it. It was upon this...
الصفحة 23 - The morning hymn is written in imitation of one of those psalms where, in the overflowings of gratitude and praise, the psalmist calls not only upon the angels, but upon the most conspicuous parts of the inanimate creation, to join with him in extolling their common Maker. Invocations of this nature fill the mind with glorious ideas of God's works, and awaken that divine enthusiasm, which is so natural to devotion. But if this calling upon the dead parts of nature is at all times a proper kind of...