The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volumen 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 28
Página 10
... honour to the English nation . I have taken a general view of it under these four heads , the fable , the characters , the sentiments , and the language , and made each of them the sub- ject of a particular paper . I have in the next ...
... honour to the English nation . I have taken a general view of it under these four heads , the fable , the characters , the sentiments , and the language , and made each of them the sub- ject of a particular paper . I have in the next ...
Página 11
... tions as might do more honour to the Italian than the English poet . In short , I have endeavoured to particularize those innumerable kinds of beau ty , which it would be tedious to recapitulate , No. 369 . 11 THE SPECTATOR .
... tions as might do more honour to the Italian than the English poet . In short , I have endeavoured to particularize those innumerable kinds of beau ty , which it would be tedious to recapitulate , No. 369 . 11 THE SPECTATOR .
Página 27
... honour and decency . An open and assured behaviour is the natural conse- quence of such a resolution . A man thus armed , if his words or actions are at any time misinter- preted , retires within himself , and , from a con- sciousness ...
... honour and decency . An open and assured behaviour is the natural conse- quence of such a resolution . A man thus armed , if his words or actions are at any time misinter- preted , retires within himself , and , from a con- sciousness ...
Página 30
... honour and virtue ? Do it immediately . Can you visit a sick friend ? Will it revive him to see you enter , and suspend your own ease and pleasure to comfort his weakness , and hear the impertinences of a wretch in pain ? Don't stay to ...
... honour and virtue ? Do it immediately . Can you visit a sick friend ? Will it revive him to see you enter , and suspend your own ease and pleasure to comfort his weakness , and hear the impertinences of a wretch in pain ? Don't stay to ...
Página 31
... honour , who take part with me , the terms I offered before the battle . Let them owe this to their friends who have been long in my interests . Power is weakened by the full use of it , but extended by moderation . Galbinius is proud ...
... honour , who take part with me , the terms I offered before the battle . Let them owe this to their friends who have been long in my interests . Power is weakened by the full use of it , but extended by moderation . Galbinius is proud ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance action Addison Æneid æther affected agreeable Anne Boleyn appear arise atheists beautiful behaviour behold Cæsar Callisthenes Chap character charms cheerfulness colours consider conversation CORNELIUS NEPOS Cotton Library creature Cynthio dæmon dauphin of France delight discourse DRYDEN endeavour entertainment eyes faculty fancy fault Fidelio Flavia friendship gentleman give grace GRATIAN hand happy heart honour humble servant ideas Iliad imagination innocence JUNE Jupiter kind ladies letter live look lover mankind manner Menippus mind modesty narch nature never objects observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular passions Pentheus perfection person pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry prince proper racter raise reader reason received reflections Roger de Coverley scenes secret sight sion soul SPECTATOR spirits taste temper thing thought tion town turally VIII VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
Pasajes populares
Página 48 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Página 188 - tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and quench my thirst. CREECB. Ouu 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 9 - They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 7 - Which he hath sent propitious some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay ; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou. Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence This further consolation yet secure I carry hence ; though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed, By me the promised Seed shall all restore.
Página 189 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Página 128 - Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did I at any time so...
Página 129 - ... 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 7 - Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning. High in front...
Página 206 - Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible, Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush...
Página 49 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.