The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Band 35 |
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... beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been . Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and statuary , both ancient and modern , know very well that there are frequent deviations from art in the works of ...
... beauty than the observation of such a rule would have been . Those who have surveyed the noblest pieces of architecture and statuary , both ancient and modern , know very well that there are frequent deviations from art in the works of ...
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... beauty whilst it is attended with cheerfulness and huma- nity , and does not come in unseasonably to pall the good humour of those with whom we converse . VOL . XV . N These two sets of men , notwithstanding that each of No. 598 . 133 ...
... beauty whilst it is attended with cheerfulness and huma- nity , and does not come in unseasonably to pall the good humour of those with whom we converse . VOL . XV . N These two sets of men , notwithstanding that each of No. 598 . 133 ...
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... beauty sits , the spectacle to see ; If she inquire the names of conquer'd kings , Of mountains , rivers , and their hidden springs ; Answer to all thou know'st ; and , if need be , Of things unknown seem to speak knowingly : This is ...
... beauty sits , the spectacle to see ; If she inquire the names of conquer'd kings , Of mountains , rivers , and their hidden springs ; Answer to all thou know'st ; and , if need be , Of things unknown seem to speak knowingly : This is ...
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... beauty , were all in their prime ! But now in their frolics when by me they pass , I fling at their fleeces an handful of grass : Be still , then I cry ; for it makes me quite mad , To see you so merry while I am so sad . VOL . XV . Р V ...
... beauty , were all in their prime ! But now in their frolics when by me they pass , I fling at their fleeces an handful of grass : Be still , then I cry ; for it makes me quite mad , To see you so merry while I am so sad . VOL . XV . Р V ...
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... beauty . My reader will apply the same observa- tion to the other sex . I need not insist upon the necessity of their pur- suing one common interest , and their united care for their children ; but shall only observe , by the way , that ...
... beauty . My reader will apply the same observa- tion to the other sex . I need not insist upon the necessity of their pur- suing one common interest , and their united care for their children ; but shall only observe , by the way , that ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady Lesbia letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours nerally ness never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR sure tell temper tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told traitor's heart trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 256 - 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...
Seite 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite 114 - 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 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Seite 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 62 - 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 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Seite 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...