The Spectator, Band 10William Durell and Company, 1810 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 30
Seite 23
... writing is an endless itch . THERE CHARLES DRYDEN . HERE is a certain distemper , which is mention- ed neither by Galen nor Hippocrates , nor to be met with in the London Dispensatory . Juvenal , in the motto of my paper , terms it a ...
... writing is an endless itch . THERE CHARLES DRYDEN . HERE is a certain distemper , which is mention- ed neither by Galen nor Hippocrates , nor to be met with in the London Dispensatory . Juvenal , in the motto of my paper , terms it a ...
Seite 27
... that of a poet , who , as Aristotle observes , is more delighted with his productions than any other writer or artist whatsoever . Plantations have one advantage in them which is not to No. 583 . 27 . THE SPECTATOR .
... that of a poet , who , as Aristotle observes , is more delighted with his productions than any other writer or artist whatsoever . Plantations have one advantage in them which is not to No. 583 . 27 . THE SPECTATOR .
Seite 69
... writing , and notwithstanding choose to depart from them on extraordinary occasions . I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular , and purposely re- ceded from an ...
... writing , and notwithstanding choose to depart from them on extraordinary occasions . I could give instances out of all the tragic writers of antiquity who have shown their judgment in this particular , and purposely re- ceded from an ...
Seite 78
... write as they think , they would at least be allowed the praise of being intelligible . But they really take pains to be ridiculous ; and , by the studied ornaments of style , perfectly disguise the little sense they aim at . There is a ...
... write as they think , they would at least be allowed the praise of being intelligible . But they really take pains to be ridiculous ; and , by the studied ornaments of style , perfectly disguise the little sense they aim at . There is a ...
Seite 80
... writer out of his road , and makes him wander from his subject for a page together . I remember a young fellow of this turn , who having said by chance , that his mistress had a world of charms , thereupon took occasion to consider her ...
... writer out of his road , and makes him wander from his subject for a page together . I remember a young fellow of this turn , who having said by chance , that his mistress had a world of charms , thereupon took occasion to consider her ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ADDISON Aglaus agreeable antediluvian appear AUTHOR UNKNOWN bacon beautiful body cacoethes Cæsar CICERO consider creature daugh delight desire discourse divine doth dreams DRYDEN endeavor entertainment eternity ev'ry existence eyes faculties fair lady fancy FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Great-Britain Gyges hæc hand happiness Harpath hath heart heaven Hilpa honor humor husband imagination infinite Julius Cæsar justice of peace kind king lady letter light lived look lover mankind manner Marcus Aurelius marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbors never night notion objects observed occasion ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason Roundhead scene Shalum sleep soul Spectator speculation steward tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah trees Trophonius truth ture verse VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife wonder words write wyfe young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 215 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 17 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 217 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 215 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Seite 217 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 70 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Seite 206 - It is to this same haste and impatience of the mind also, that a not due tracing of the arguments to their true foundation is owing ; men see a little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.
Seite 48 - ... whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth, when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, &c, and upon what grounds, he shall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions.
Seite 31 - ... which goes under the name of Tirzah. Harpath was of a haughty contemptuous spirit; Shalum was of a gentle disposition, beloved both by God and man. It is said that among the antediluvian women, the daughters of Cohu had their minds wholly...
Seite 196 - ... in all ages. Were his repentance upon his neglect of a good bargain, his sorrow for being over-reached, his hope of improving a sum, and his fear of falling into want, directed to their proper objects, they would make so many different Christian graces and virtues. He may apply to himself a great part of St.