The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... pains of his dissolution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in fulness of joy ...
... pains of his dissolution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him , and is about to manifest itself to him in fulness of joy ...
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James Ferguson. when pain itself would be of so short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to mind a story of an ingenious gentleman of the last ...
James Ferguson. when pain itself would be of so short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure . While I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to mind a story of an ingenious gentleman of the last ...
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... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Then to the patron of his art he pray'd ; The patron of his art refus'd his aid . " But now the goddess mother , mov'd with grief , And pierc'd with pity , hastens her relief . A ...
... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Then to the patron of his art he pray'd ; The patron of his art refus'd his aid . " But now the goddess mother , mov'd with grief , And pierc'd with pity , hastens her relief . A ...
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... pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory would it be for me , and how I should be envied , made me accept of being third wife to my lord Friday . I proposed , from my rank and his ...
... pain to a man of sense ; this , and some private hopes he would hang himself , and what a glory would it be for me , and how I should be envied , made me accept of being third wife to my lord Friday . I proposed , from my rank and his ...
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... pains , and prescriptions for every fancy that troubled him ; in hot weather he lived upon juleps , and let blood to prevent fevers ; when it grew cloudy he generally apprehended a consumption ; to shorten the history of this wretched ...
... pains , and prescriptions for every fancy that troubled him ; in hot weather he lived upon juleps , and let blood to prevent fevers ; when it grew cloudy he generally apprehended a consumption ; to shorten the history of this wretched ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admirer Æneid agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty blót body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy fear fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady letter light lived lives single look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind MONDAY nature neighbouring never night notions NOVEMBER 15 observed occasion OCTOBER 20 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason received roundhead scene secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR steward tell tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah Tom Tyler trees truth verses VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young
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Página 256 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 114 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Página 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Página 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
Página 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Página 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Página 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!