The Spectator, Том 6W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... readers had much more regard to the advice I gave them , fince I have yet received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month . But tho ' I hope for the beft , I fhall not pronounce too pofitively on this point ...
... readers had much more regard to the advice I gave them , fince I have yet received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month . But tho ' I hope for the beft , I fhall not pronounce too pofitively on this point ...
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... readers to return to their romances and chocolate , provided they make use of them with moderation , till about the middle of the month , when the fun fhall have made fome progrefs in the crab . Nothing is more dangerous , than too 8 ...
... readers to return to their romances and chocolate , provided they make use of them with moderation , till about the middle of the month , when the fun fhall have made fome progrefs in the crab . Nothing is more dangerous , than too 8 ...
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... reader's leave to prefent him with a letter that I received about half a year ago from a gentleman of Cambridge , who ftyles himself Peter de Quir . Ih ve kept it by me fome months , and though I did not know at first what to make of it ...
... reader's leave to prefent him with a letter that I received about half a year ago from a gentleman of Cambridge , who ftyles himself Peter de Quir . Ih ve kept it by me fome months , and though I did not know at first what to make of it ...
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... reader , than the most laboured strokes of a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually before us in the one , whom fiction places at a greater diftance from us in the other . I do not remember to have ...
... reader , than the most laboured strokes of a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually before us in the one , whom fiction places at a greater diftance from us in the other . I do not remember to have ...
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... reader those methods by which he may arrive at a true and im- The ufual means pre- partial knowledge of himself . fcribed for this purpose , are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in Sacred N ° 399 ...
... reader those methods by which he may arrive at a true and im- The ufual means pre- partial knowledge of himself . fcribed for this purpose , are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in Sacred N ° 399 ...
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Страница 267 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Страница 48 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us.
Страница 15 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since...
Страница 14 - But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault, where not so much as a thought thereof preceded. And to speak a truth, never prince had wife more loyal in all duty, and in all true affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn...
Страница 76 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure ; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Страница 74 - Unvex'd with quarrels, undisturb'd with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys — Cool grots, and living lakes, the flow'ry pride Of meads, and streams that through the valley glide And shady groves that easy sleep invite, And, after toilsome days, a soft repose at night.
Страница 69 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Страница 93 - He is at no more expense in a long vista than a short one, and can as easily throw his cascades from a precipice of half a mile high, as from one of twenty yards. He has his choice of the winds, and can turn the course of his rivers in all the variety of meanders that are most delightful to the reader's imagination.
Страница 71 - He has annexed a secret pleasure to the idea of any thing that is new or uncommon, that he might encourage us in the pursuit after knowledge, and engage us to search into the wonders of his creation ; for every new idea brings such a pleasure along with it as rewards any pains we have taken in its acquisition, and consequently serves as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries.
Страница 22 - They either do not see our faults, or conceal them from us, or soften them by their representations, after such a manner, that we think them too trivial to be taken notice of. An adversary, on the contrary, makes a stricter search into us, discovers every flaw and imperfection in our tempers, and though his malice may...