The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... believe I can never have any other . Another reason of my publishing these sermons at this time is , that I have a mind to do myself some honour by doing what honour I could to the memory of two most excellent princes , and who have ...
... believe I can never have any other . Another reason of my publishing these sermons at this time is , that I have a mind to do myself some honour by doing what honour I could to the memory of two most excellent princes , and who have ...
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... believe we shall find some of the firmest friendships to have been contracted between persons of different humours ; the mind being often pleased with those perfections which are new to it , and which it does not find among its own ...
... believe we shall find some of the firmest friendships to have been contracted between persons of different humours ; the mind being often pleased with those perfections which are new to it , and which it does not find among its own ...
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... believe , that if something like this method of punishment should prevail in England ( such is the natural good sense of the British nation ) , that whether we rammed an atheist whole into a great gun , or pulverized our infidels , as ...
... believe , that if something like this method of punishment should prevail in England ( such is the natural good sense of the British nation ) , that whether we rammed an atheist whole into a great gun , or pulverized our infidels , as ...
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... believe that I will make a sacrifice of so many mortals as good as him . self , and all this to his glory forsooth ? But hark ! ” says Jupiter , " there is a voice I never heard but in time of danger : ' tis a rogue that is shipwrecked ...
... believe that I will make a sacrifice of so many mortals as good as him . self , and all this to his glory forsooth ? But hark ! ” says Jupiter , " there is a voice I never heard but in time of danger : ' tis a rogue that is shipwrecked ...
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... believe he is more virtuous than he really is , and either not attend to his vices , or mistake even his vices for virtues . It is this fatal hypocrisy , and self - deceit , which is taken notice of in those words , Who can understand ...
... believe he is more virtuous than he really is , and either not attend to his vices , or mistake even his vices for virtues . It is this fatal hypocrisy , and self - deceit , which is taken notice of in those words , Who can understand ...
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Страница 131 - 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...
Страница 2 - Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. 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 does 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...
Страница 199 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Страница 132 - Besides, the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage above those of the understanding, that they are more obvious, and more easy to be acquired: it is but opening the eye, and the scene enters...
Страница 73 - ... shame; then shall you see either mine innocence cleared, your suspicion and conscience satisfied, the ignominy and slander of the world stopped, or my guilt openly declared.
Страница 262 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Страница 133 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Страница 84 - Sedley* has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; liaise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In dreams all night, in sighs and tears all day.
Страница 149 - They have a word, it seems, in their language, by which they express the particular beauty of a plantation that thus strikes the imagination at first sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect.
Страница 141 - One of the final causes of our delight in any thing that is great may be this. The Supreme Author of our being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its last, adequate and proper happiness. Because therefore a great part of our happiness must arise from the contemplation of his being, that he might give our souls a just relish of such a contemplation, he has made them naturally delight in the apprehension of what is great or unlimited.