The Spectator, Volume 6J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... meet with in Hiftories , make a deeper Impreffion on the Mind of the Reader , than the moft laboured Strokes in a well - written Tragedy . Trueh and Matter of Fact sets the Perfon actually before us in the one , whom Fiction places at a ...
... meet with in Hiftories , make a deeper Impreffion on the Mind of the Reader , than the moft laboured Strokes in a well - written Tragedy . Trueh and Matter of Fact sets the Perfon actually before us in the one , whom Fiction places at a ...
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... meet your Eyes , after what has pafs'd , I flatter my felf , that amidst all their Confufion you will difcover fuch a Tenderness in mine , as none can imitate but those who Love . I fhall be all this Month at Lady D- -'s in the Country ...
... meet your Eyes , after what has pafs'd , I flatter my felf , that amidst all their Confufion you will difcover fuch a Tenderness in mine , as none can imitate but those who Love . I fhall be all this Month at Lady D- -'s in the Country ...
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... meet with in the World , is generally owing to the impertinent Affectation of excelling in Characters Men are not fit for , and for which Nature never defigned them . EVERY Man has one or more Qualities which may make him useful both to ...
... meet with in the World , is generally owing to the impertinent Affectation of excelling in Characters Men are not fit for , and for which Nature never defigned them . EVERY Man has one or more Qualities which may make him useful both to ...
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... meet with Excellent Words , and , at the fame time , a wonderful Variety of them . There is no Paffion that is not finely expreffed in thofe parts of the infpired Writings , which are proper for Divine Songs and Anthems . THERE is a ...
... meet with Excellent Words , and , at the fame time , a wonderful Variety of them . There is no Paffion that is not finely expreffed in thofe parts of the infpired Writings , which are proper for Divine Songs and Anthems . THERE is a ...
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... meet with the fame fpeaking Statues at our Bars , and in all publick Places of Debate . Our Words flow from us in a smooth continued Stream , without thofe Strainings of the Voice , Motions of the Body , and Majefty of the Hand , which ...
... meet with the fame fpeaking Statues at our Bars , and in all publick Places of Debate . Our Words flow from us in a smooth continued Stream , without thofe Strainings of the Voice , Motions of the Body , and Majefty of the Hand , which ...
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Page 259 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 65 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Page 290 - 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?
Page 15 - ... enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Page 290 - 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 ever-during 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.
Page 216 - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
Page 93 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Page 15 - Grace may be freed from an open censure, and mine offence being so lawfully proved, your Grace is at liberty, both before God and man, not only to execute worthy punishment on me as an unlawful wife, but to follow your affection, already...
Page 218 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.
Page 275 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i