The Spectator, Volume 7Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... tion since the former arise from a voluntary choice , the latter from a necessity to which we could not give our own consent . As it has been said on one side , that a man ought not to break with a faulty friend , that he may not expose ...
... tion since the former arise from a voluntary choice , the latter from a necessity to which we could not give our own consent . As it has been said on one side , that a man ought not to break with a faulty friend , that he may not expose ...
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... tion . It is certain that all men , who are the least given to reflection , are seized with an inclination that way when , perhaps , they had rather be in- clined to company ; but indeed they had better go home and be tired with ...
... tion . It is certain that all men , who are the least given to reflection , are seized with an inclination that way when , perhaps , they had rather be in- clined to company ; but indeed they had better go home and be tired with ...
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... tion and knowledge of life are to be acquired ; but that which no one can describe , and is appa- rently the act of nature , must be every where prevalent , because every thing it meets is a fit occasion to exert it ; for he who follows ...
... tion and knowledge of life are to be acquired ; but that which no one can describe , and is appa- rently the act of nature , must be every where prevalent , because every thing it meets is a fit occasion to exert it ; for he who follows ...
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... tion those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood , and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits . I scarce remember , in my own observation , to have met with many old men , or with such , who ...
... tion those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood , and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits . I scarce remember , in my own observation , to have met with many old men , or with such , who ...
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... tion . Melancholy is a kind of demon that haunts our island , and often conveys herself to us in an easterly wind . A celebrated French novelist , in opposition to those who begin their romances with the flowery season of the year ...
... tion . Melancholy is a kind of demon that haunts our island , and often conveys herself to us in an easterly wind . A celebrated French novelist , in opposition to those who begin their romances with the flowery season of the year ...
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Page 275 - 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 noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 137 - 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.
Page 161 - Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it.
Page 153 - If the Products of Nature rise in Value, according as they more or less resemble those of Art, we may be sure that artificial Works receive a greater Advantage from their Resemblance of such as are natural ; because here the Similitude is not only pleasant, but the Pattern more perfect.
Page 136 - Sense which furnishes the Imagination with its Ideas; so that by the Pleasures of the Imagination or Fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible Objects, either when we have them actually in our View, or when we call up their Ideas into our Minds by Paintings, Statues, Descriptions, or any the like Occasion...
Page 200 - Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off...
Page 138 - 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.
Page 264 - 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.
Page 200 - 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.
Page 148 - In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods, and meadows, and, at the same time, hears the warbling of birds and the purling of streams; but upon the finishing of some secret spell the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath or in a solitary desert.