The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... mind of the reader , than the most laboured strokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact sets the person actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at a greater distance from us in the other . I do not ...
... mind of the reader , than the most laboured strokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact sets the person actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at a greater distance from us in the other . I do not ...
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... mind to any one less engaged than she was . Cynthio was musing yesterday in the piazza in Covent - garden , and was saying to himself that he was a very ill man to go on in visiting and professing love to Flavia , when his heart was ...
... mind to any one less engaged than she was . Cynthio was musing yesterday in the piazza in Covent - garden , and was saying to himself that he was a very ill man to go on in visiting and professing love to Flavia , when his heart was ...
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... mind . DRYDEN . HYPOCRISY at the fashionable end of the town , is very different from hypocrisy in the city . The mo- dish hypocrite endeavours to appear more vicious than he really is , the other kind of hypocrite more virtuous . The ...
... mind . DRYDEN . HYPOCRISY at the fashionable end of the town , is very different from hypocrisy in the city . The mo- dish hypocrite endeavours to appear more vicious than he really is , the other kind of hypocrite more virtuous . The ...
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... mind . These are the inlets of prejudice , the unguarded avenues of the mind , by which a thousand errors and secret faults find admission , without being observed or taken notice of . A wise man will suspect those actions to which he ...
... mind . These are the inlets of prejudice , the unguarded avenues of the mind , by which a thousand errors and secret faults find admission , without being observed or taken notice of . A wise man will suspect those actions to which he ...
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... mind , Nor sheep nor pasture worth my care I find . ' ' Once Delia slept , on easy moss reclin'd , Her lovely limbs half bare , and rude the wind : I smooth'd her coats , and stole a silent kiss : Condemn me , shepherds , if I did amiss ...
... mind , Nor sheep nor pasture worth my care I find . ' ' Once Delia slept , on easy moss reclin'd , Her lovely limbs half bare , and rude the wind : I smooth'd her coats , and stole a silent kiss : Condemn me , shepherds , if I did amiss ...
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Página 363 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 349 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, 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.
Página 218 - 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 368 - 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 everduring 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.
Página 142 - Softly on my eyelids laid ; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Página 369 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, 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?
Página 74 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that...
Página 71 - 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 349 - Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, 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 218 - 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...