The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... advantage . In these and the like cases , a man's judgment is easily pervert- ed , and a wrong bias hung upon his mind . These are the inlets of prejudice , the unguarded avenues of the mind , by which a thousand errors and secret ...
... advantage . In these and the like cases , a man's judgment is easily pervert- ed , and a wrong bias hung upon his mind . These are the inlets of prejudice , the unguarded avenues of the mind , by which a thousand errors and secret ...
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... advantage . The like , or a more delicate and careful spirit of modesty , ap- pears in the following passage in one of Mr. Philips's pastorals : * Dryden's All for Love , act iii , • Breathe soft ye winds , ye waters gently flow 24 400 ...
... advantage . The like , or a more delicate and careful spirit of modesty , ap- pears in the following passage in one of Mr. Philips's pastorals : * Dryden's All for Love , act iii , • Breathe soft ye winds , ye waters gently flow 24 400 ...
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... advantage in other pursuits . I shall therefore take the liberty to acquaint you , however harsh it may sound in a lady's ears , that though your love - fit should happen to re- turn , unless you could contrive a way to make your ...
... advantage in other pursuits . I shall therefore take the liberty to acquaint you , however harsh it may sound in a lady's ears , that though your love - fit should happen to re- turn , unless you could contrive a way to make your ...
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... advantage . L. ADDISON . N ° 404 . FRIDAY , JUNE 13 , 1712 . -Non omnia possumus omnes . VIRG . Ecl . viii . ver . 63 . With different talents form'd , we variously excel . NATURE does nothing in vain : the Creator of the universe has ...
... advantage . L. ADDISON . N ° 404 . FRIDAY , JUNE 13 , 1712 . -Non omnia possumus omnes . VIRG . Ecl . viii . ver . 63 . With different talents form'd , we variously excel . NATURE does nothing in vain : the Creator of the universe has ...
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... advantage above those of the understanding , that they are more obvious , and more easy to be acquir- ed . It is but opening the eye , and the scene enters . The colours paint themselves on the fancy , with very little attention of ...
... advantage above those of the understanding , that they are more obvious , and more easy to be acquir- ed . It is but opening the eye , and the scene enters . The colours paint themselves on the fancy , with very little attention of ...
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Página 363 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 349 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 218 - 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.
Página 368 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 369 - 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?
Página 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...
Página 71 - OUR 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 349 - Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 218 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade...