Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volumen2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 |
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... heads , what is pleasing or displeasing to the mind , without being able to trace out the several necessary and efficient causes from whence the pleasure or displeasure arises . Final causes lie more bare and open to our observation 8 ...
... heads , what is pleasing or displeasing to the mind , without being able to trace out the several necessary and efficient causes from whence the pleasure or displeasure arises . Final causes lie more bare and open to our observation 8 ...
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... he went to war , he put himself at the head of a whole people : as we find Semiramis leading her three millions to the field , and yet overpowered by the number of her enemies . ON THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION . 15.
... he went to war , he put himself at the head of a whole people : as we find Semiramis leading her three millions to the field , and yet overpowered by the number of her enemies . ON THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION . 15.
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... heads . In the like manner , when we read of torments , wounds , deaths , and the like dismal accidents , our pleasure does not flow so properly from the grief which such melancholy descriptions give us , as from the secret comparison ...
... heads . In the like manner , when we read of torments , wounds , deaths , and the like dismal accidents , our pleasure does not flow so properly from the grief which such melancholy descriptions give us , as from the secret comparison ...
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... heads those contrary objects , which are apt to fill it with distaste and terror ; for the imagination is as liable to pain as pleasure . When the brain is hurt by any accident , or the mind disordered by dreams or sickness , the fancy ...
... heads those contrary objects , which are apt to fill it with distaste and terror ; for the imagination is as liable to pain as pleasure . When the brain is hurt by any accident , or the mind disordered by dreams or sickness , the fancy ...
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... head , and a Narcissus in his hand ; primroses and violets sprang up under his feet , and all nature was cheered at his approach . Flora was on one hand , and Vertumnus on the other in a robe 40 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR .
... head , and a Narcissus in his hand ; primroses and violets sprang up under his feet , and all nature was cheered at his approach . Flora was on one hand , and Vertumnus on the other in a robe 40 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR .
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Adam and Eve ADDISON Æneas Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle Barsisa beautiful behaviour behold character chimæras circumstances colours consider creation creatures critics CRITIQUE ON MILTON'S death delight described discourse discover divine earth endeavoured entertained epic poem fable fallen angels fancy filled garden genius give hand happy hath heart heaven Helim Homer honour ideas Iliad images imagination infernal Jupiter kind king lady likewise lived look mankind manner Milton MILTON'S PARADISE LOST mind nature never noble observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper particular passage passed passion pastoral PASTORAL POETRY persons pleased pleasure poet poetical poetry proper reader represented Rhadamanthus santon Satan says scene sentiments Shalum sight speech spirit story sublime take notice tells Thammuz thee Theocritus things thou thought told Virgil wherein whole words writing
Pasajes populares
Página 282 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 273 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Página 272 - Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? ' thus leave " Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, " Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend " Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day " That must be mortal to us both.
Página 203 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose. He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Página 282 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 199 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 99 - ... which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church : for he was heard to say some time ago, that if he lived two years longer, Coverley church should have a steeple to it.
Página 114 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those Who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Página 210 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Página 281 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...