The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Página 41
... , Cleanthes reads plays , dances , dresses , and spends his time in drawing - rooms ; instead of being a good lawyer , divine , or physician , Cleanthes VOL . VI . D is a downright coxcomb , and will remain to all 404 . 41 SPECTATOR .
... , Cleanthes reads plays , dances , dresses , and spends his time in drawing - rooms ; instead of being a good lawyer , divine , or physician , Cleanthes VOL . VI . D is a downright coxcomb , and will remain to all 404 . 41 SPECTATOR .
Página 45
... divine the joyous banquet ends ; The Pæans lengthen'd till the sun descends : The Greeks restor❜d the grateful notes prolong ; Apollo listens , and approves the song . POPE . AM very sorry to find , by the opera bills for this day ...
... divine the joyous banquet ends ; The Pæans lengthen'd till the sun descends : The Greeks restor❜d the grateful notes prolong ; Apollo listens , and approves the song . POPE . AM very sorry to find , by the opera bills for this day ...
Página 46
... divine songs and anthems . There is a certain coldness and indifference in the phrases of our European languages , when they are compared with the oriental forms of speech ; and it happens very luckily , that the Hebrew idioms run into ...
... divine songs and anthems . There is a certain coldness and indifference in the phrases of our European languages , when they are compared with the oriental forms of speech ; and it happens very luckily , that the Hebrew idioms run into ...
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... divine odes , but generally set them to music himself : after which , his works , though they were consecrated to the tabernacle , became the national entertainment , as well as the devotion of his people . The first original of the ...
... divine odes , but generally set them to music himself : after which , his works , though they were consecrated to the tabernacle , became the national entertainment , as well as the devotion of his people . The first original of the ...
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... divine impulses in the soul , which every one feels that has not stifled them by sensual and immo- derate pleasures . Music , when thus applied , raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer , and fills it with great concep- tions . It ...
... divine impulses in the soul , which every one feels that has not stifled them by sensual and immo- derate pleasures . Music , when thus applied , raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer , and fills it with great concep- tions . It ...
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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...