The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... heart that is inconsistent with a life which is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers . Writers of this complexion have observed , that the Sacred Person who was the great pattern of perfection was never seen to laugh ...
... heart that is inconsistent with a life which is every moment obnoxious to the greatest dangers . Writers of this complexion have observed , that the Sacred Person who was the great pattern of perfection was never seen to laugh ...
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... heart re- joices of its own accord , and naturally flows out into friendship and benevolence towards the per- son who has so kindly an effect upon it . When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation , I cannot but ...
... heart re- joices of its own accord , and naturally flows out into friendship and benevolence towards the per- son who has so kindly an effect upon it . When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation , I cannot but ...
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... short- ness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the name of evils . A good mind may bear up under them with for- titude , with indolence , and with cheerfulness of heart 12 No. 381 . SPECTATOR .
... short- ness of their duration , and the advantage we may reap from them , do not deserve the name of evils . A good mind may bear up under them with for- titude , with indolence , and with cheerfulness of heart 12 No. 381 . SPECTATOR .
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titude , with indolence , and with cheerfulness of heart . The tossing of a tempest does not dis- compose him , which he is sure will bring him to a joyful harbour . A man who uses his best endeavours to live ac- cording to the dictates ...
titude , with indolence , and with cheerfulness of heart . The tossing of a tempest does not dis- compose him , which he is sure will bring him to a joyful harbour . A man who uses his best endeavours to live ac- cording to the dictates ...
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... heart which unthinking men are subject to when they lie un- der no real affliction : all that anguish which we may feel from any evil that actually oppresses us , to which I may likewise add those little cracklings of mirth and folly ...
... heart which unthinking men are subject to when they lie un- der no real affliction : all that anguish which we may feel from any evil that actually oppresses us , to which I may likewise add those little cracklings of mirth and folly ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admirable Æneid affected agreeable Ann Boleyn appear beautiful behaviour behold called Callisthenes character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider CORNELIUS NEPOS Cotton library creature Cynthio dauphin of France delight desire discourse endeavour entertainment Epig eyes fancy fault Fidelio Flavia gentle gentleman give Gloriana grace greatest hand happy heart honour human humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination impertinent infirmary innocence Julius Cæsar JULY 24 JUNE JUNE 18 Jupiter kind lady letter live look lover Lupercus man's mankind manner Menippus ment mind nature never objects observed occasion OVID paper particular pass passions persons pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present reader reason received reflections Robin secret Sempronia sense sight sions soul SPECTATOR spirit temper thing thou thought tion town VIRG virtue voice whole woman women words writ writing young
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Página 281 - 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 79 - I rightly conceived your meaning ; and if, as you say, confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty perform your command.
Página 155 - If the Products of Nature rise in Value, according as they more or less resemble those of Art, we may be sure that artificial Works receive a greater Advantage from their Resemblance of such as are natural ; because here the Similitude is not only pleasant, but the Pattern more perfect.
Página 80 - My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your Grace's displeasure, and that it may not touch the innocent souls of those poor gentlemen who, as I understand, are likewise in strait imprisonment for my sake. If ever I have found favour in your sight, if ever the name of Anne Boleyn hath been pleasing in your ears, then let me obtain this request...
Página 177 - When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little pleased to think we are in no danger of them. We consider them, at the same time, as dreadful and harmless; so that the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety.
Página 186 - But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and...
Página 181 - Men of cold fancies, and philosophical dispositions, object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure in general, there are many intellectual beings in the world besides ourselves, and. several species of spirits, who are subject to different laws and oeconomies from those of mankind; when we see, therefore, any of these represented naturally...
Página 138 - 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 9 - Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it docs not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Página 150 - ... delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods., and meadows, and at the same time hears the warbling of birds and the purling of streams ; but upon the finishing of some secret spell the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath or in a solitary desert.