The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... pleasant and enter- taining , I always thought the best employment of human wit : other parts of philosophy may perhaps make us wiser , but this not only answers that end , but makes us better too . Hence it was that the oracle ...
... pleasant and enter- taining , I always thought the best employment of human wit : other parts of philosophy may perhaps make us wiser , but this not only answers that end , but makes us better too . Hence it was that the oracle ...
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... pleasant to look upon , but never so much as in the opening of the spring , when they are all new and fresh , with their first gloss upon them , and not yet too much accustomed and familiar to the eye . For this reason there is nothing ...
... pleasant to look upon , but never so much as in the opening of the spring , when they are all new and fresh , with their first gloss upon them , and not yet too much accustomed and familiar to the eye . For this reason there is nothing ...
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... as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries . He has made every thing that is beautiful in our own species pleasant , that all creatures might be tempted to multiply their kind , and fill the world 413 . 83 SPECTATOR .
... as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries . He has made every thing that is beautiful in our own species pleasant , that all creatures might be tempted to multiply their kind , and fill the world 413 . 83 SPECTATOR .
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... pleasant , or rather has made so many objects appear beautiful , that he might render the whole creation more gay and delightful . He has given almost every thing about us the power of raising an agreeable idea in the imagination : so ...
... pleasant , or rather has made so many objects appear beautiful , that he might render the whole creation more gay and delightful . He has given almost every thing about us the power of raising an agreeable idea in the imagination : so ...
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... pleasant to the imagination than those of art . The works of nature still more pleasant , the more they resemble those of art . The works of art more pleasant , the more they resemble those of nature . Our English plantations and ...
... pleasant to the imagination than those of art . The works of nature still more pleasant , the more they resemble those of art . The works of art more pleasant , the more they resemble those of nature . Our English plantations and ...
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Страница 330 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Страница 366 - 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.
Страница 214 - 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.
Страница 323 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Страница 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.
Страница 367 - 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?
Страница 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...
Страница 270 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Страница 366 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Страница 318 - Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and...