Select British Classics, Volumen16J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... object which would be otherwise desirable . It was said of a wit in the last age , Sidney has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; Raise such a conflict , kindle ...
... object which would be otherwise desirable . It was said of a wit in the last age , Sidney has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; Raise such a conflict , kindle ...
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... object . To soft flutes The silver cars kept time : and while they play'd , The hearing gave new pleasure to the sight , And both to thought ... Here the imagination is warmed with all the objects presented ; and yet there is nothing ...
... object . To soft flutes The silver cars kept time : and while they play'd , The hearing gave new pleasure to the sight , And both to thought ... Here the imagination is warmed with all the objects presented ; and yet there is nothing ...
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... object of an unjust pas- sion in a nobleman , who is very intimate with my hus- band . This friendship gives him very easy access , and frequent opportunities of entertaining me apart . My heart is in the utmost anguish , and my face is ...
... object of an unjust pas- sion in a nobleman , who is very intimate with my hus- band . This friendship gives him very easy access , and frequent opportunities of entertaining me apart . My heart is in the utmost anguish , and my face is ...
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... my penny at the bar , and made the best of my way to Cheapside . I here gazed upon the signs for some time before I found one to my purpose . The first object I met in the coffee - room , was a person who expressed 40 THE SPECTATOR .
... my penny at the bar , and made the best of my way to Cheapside . I here gazed upon the signs for some time before I found one to my purpose . The first object I met in the coffee - room , was a person who expressed 40 THE SPECTATOR .
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... object of his desires ; the dis- satisfaction he expresses even at the greatest swift- ness with which he is carried , and his joyful surprise ' at an unexpected sight of his mistress as she is bath- ing , seem beautifully described in ...
... object of his desires ; the dis- satisfaction he expresses even at the greatest swift- ness with which he is carried , and his joyful surprise ' at an unexpected sight of his mistress as she is bath- ing , seem beautifully described in ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admired advantage affected agreeable Ann Boleyn appear beautiful behold Callisthenes character Cicero colours consider conversation Cotton library Cynthio delight desire discourse divine Eastcourt endeavour entertainment excellent eyes fancy favour fortune gentleman give Gloriana gout grace hand happiness heart honour hope humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination irreligion James Miller kind lady letter live look lours mankind manner matter mind modesty nation nature ness never objects observed occasion OVID paper particular pass passions Penthesilea perfection persons pleasant pleasing pleasure Plutarch Plutus poet poor present racter reader reason received reflection ROSCOMMON Samson Agonistes satisfaction secret Sempronia sense shew sight soul Spanish monarchy Spectator taste thing thio thou thought tion town tural ture VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words writing
Pasajes populares
Página 331 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 305 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 297 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 199 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare. And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 318 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed 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...
Página 70 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest "variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 16 - Grace, let not any light fancy or bad counsel of mine 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.
Página 70 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination, or fancy, (which I shall use promiscuously,) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.
Página 318 - Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed 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...
Página 200 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.