The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Том 11808 |
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Сторінка xxxix
... scenes and daily occurrences . To use the words of that elegant and acute critic Dr. JOHNSON , " he ne'er o'ersteps the modesty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by ...
... scenes and daily occurrences . To use the words of that elegant and acute critic Dr. JOHNSON , " he ne'er o'ersteps the modesty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by ...
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... scenes which he had before passed through . As he was coming out of this delight- ful part of the wood , and entering upon the plains it inclosed , he saw several horsemen rushing by him , and a little while after heard the cry of a ...
... scenes which he had before passed through . As he was coming out of this delight- ful part of the wood , and entering upon the plains it inclosed , he saw several horsemen rushing by him , and a little while after heard the cry of a ...
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... scene , he was very often tempt . ed to pluck the flowers that rose every where about him in the greatest variety and profusion , having never seen several of them in his own country : but he quickly found , that though they were ...
... scene , he was very often tempt . ed to pluck the flowers that rose every where about him in the greatest variety and profusion , having never seen several of them in his own country : but he quickly found , that though they were ...
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... scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide , th ' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows , clouds , and darkness rest upon it . Here wil ! I hold . If there's a power above us , ( And that there is all nature cries aloud ...
... scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide , th ' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows , clouds , and darkness rest upon it . Here wil ! I hold . If there's a power above us , ( And that there is all nature cries aloud ...
Сторінка 71
... scene to the very action , when the Emperor throws his handkerchief as a signal for his mistress to follow him into the most retired part of the seraglio . It must be confessed his Turkish majesty he went off with a good air , but ...
... scene to the very action , when the Emperor throws his handkerchief as a signal for his mistress to follow him into the most retired part of the seraglio . It must be confessed his Turkish majesty he went off with a good air , but ...
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Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
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Сторінка 42 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Сторінка 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Сторінка 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Сторінка 118 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Сторінка 176 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Сторінка 42 - 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...
Сторінка 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Сторінка 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.