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delight , and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it . This consists either in the gaiety or variety of colours , in the symmetry and proportion of parts , in the arrangement and disposition of bodies ...
delight , and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it . This consists either in the gaiety or variety of colours , in the symmetry and proportion of parts , in the arrangement and disposition of bodies ...
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VIR.3 But though there are several of these wild scenes that are more delightful than any artificial shows , yet we find the works of Nature still more pleasant , the more they resemble ... Hence it is that we take delight in a prospect ...
VIR.3 But though there are several of these wild scenes that are more delightful than any artificial shows , yet we find the works of Nature still more pleasant , the more they resemble ... Hence it is that we take delight in a prospect ...
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It is not strange that we should take delight in such passages as are apt to produce hope , joy , admiration , love , or the like emotions in us , because they never rise in the mind without an inward pleasure which attends them .
It is not strange that we should take delight in such passages as are apt to produce hope , joy , admiration , love , or the like emotions in us , because they never rise in the mind without an inward pleasure which attends them .
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able acquainted ADDISON admiration advantage affection agreeable appear attend beauty body called carried character common consider conversation death delight desire discourse everything excellent eyes figure fortune give given greatest hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope human humour ideas imagination immediately kind lady late learning leave letter light live look manner matter means meet mentioned mind nature never objects obliged observed occasion particular pass passion perfection person pleased pleasure poet poor present proper raise reader reason received reflection regard seems seen sense Servant side sight soul speak Spectator STEELE taken tell things thought tion told took town turn virtue whole woman women writing young
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 5 New universal library The Spectator, George Atherton Aitken |
| Editor | George Atherton Aitken |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, George Atherton Aitken, Sir Richard Steele |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | G. Routledge, 1898 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2014 |
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