The Spectator, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 5
... ideas and pictures as are hardly any thing but shade ; fuch as night , the devil , & c . Thefe portraitures very near overpower the light of the under- ftanding , almoft be - night the faculties , and give that me- lancholy tincture to ...
... ideas and pictures as are hardly any thing but shade ; fuch as night , the devil , & c . Thefe portraitures very near overpower the light of the under- ftanding , almoft be - night the faculties , and give that me- lancholy tincture to ...
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... idea more loose than that of a beautiful woman fet off to advantage . The like , or a more deli- cate and careful spirit of modefty , appears in the follow- ing paffage in one of Mr. Philips's pastorals : Breathe foft ye winds , ye ...
... idea more loose than that of a beautiful woman fet off to advantage . The like , or a more deli- cate and careful spirit of modefty , appears in the follow- ing paffage in one of Mr. Philips's pastorals : Breathe foft ye winds , ye ...
Page 59
... ideas , converfes with it's objects at the greatest di- ftance , and continues the longeft in action without being tired or fatiated with it's proper enjoyments . The fenfe of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extenfion , fhape ...
... ideas , converfes with it's objects at the greatest di- ftance , and continues the longeft in action without being tired or fatiated with it's proper enjoyments . The fenfe of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extenfion , fhape ...
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... ideas of visible objects , when the objects are not actually before the eye , but are called up into our memories , or formed into agreeable vifions of things that are either ab- fent or fictitious . The pleasures of the imagination ...
... ideas of visible objects , when the objects are not actually before the eye , but are called up into our memories , or formed into agreeable vifions of things that are either ab- fent or fictitious . The pleasures of the imagination ...
Page 63
... idea of which it was not before poffeffed . We are indeed fo often converfant with one fet of objects , and tired out with fo many repeated fhows of the fame things , that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human ...
... idea of which it was not before poffeffed . We are indeed fo often converfant with one fet of objects , and tired out with fo many repeated fhows of the fame things , that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human ...
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