The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken G. Routledge, 1898 - English essays |
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Page 80
... pleased with what is great - The final cause of our being pleased with what is new— The final cause of our being pleased with what is beautiful in our own species - The final cause of our being pleased with what is beautiful in general ...
... pleased with what is great - The final cause of our being pleased with what is new— The final cause of our being pleased with what is beautiful in our own species - The final cause of our being pleased with what is beautiful in general ...
Page 198
... pleased with everything that is matter of fact , so it be what they have not heard before . A victory or defeat are equally agreeable to them . The shutting of a cardinal's mouth pleases them one post , and the open- ing of it another ...
... pleased with everything that is matter of fact , so it be what they have not heard before . A victory or defeat are equally agreeable to them . The shutting of a cardinal's mouth pleases them one post , and the open- ing of it another ...
Page 428
... pleased as when she exerts herself in any action that gives her an idea of her own perfections and abilities . This natural pride and ambition of the soul is very much gratified in the reading of a fable ; for in writings of this kind ...
... pleased as when she exerts herself in any action that gives her an idea of her own perfections and abilities . This natural pride and ambition of the soul is very much gratified in the reading of a fable ; for in writings of this kind ...
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acquainted ADDISON admiration affection agreeable appear beauty behold Callisthenes Cicero colours consider conversation countenance Covent Garden creatures delight desire discourse divine dream dress endeavour entertainment Epig excellent eyes fancy favour fortune garden gentleman give greatest hand happy heart Hockley-in-the-Hole honour hope humble Servant humour husband Iliad imagination kind lady letter live look mankind manner marriage matter mind modesty nature never objects obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion perfection person Pindar pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus poet present reader reason received Rechteren reflection Roger de Coverley satisfaction seems Sempronia sense sight Sir Robert Viner soul Spectator SPECTATOR,-I STEELE taste Tatler tell things thou thought tion town TUNBRIDGE VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words writing young