The Spectator ...George Gregory Smith J. M. Dent & Company, 1898 |
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... Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , such as Night , the Devil , & c . These Portraitures very near over - power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties , and give that melancholy Tincture to the ...
... Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , such as Night , the Devil , & c . These Portraitures very near over - power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties , and give that melancholy Tincture to the ...
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... Idea more loose than that of a beautiful Woman set off to Advantage , The like , or a more deli cate and careful Spirit of Modesty , appears in the following Passage in one of Mr. Philips's Pastorals , Breathe Breathe soft ye Winds , ye ...
... Idea more loose than that of a beautiful Woman set off to Advantage , The like , or a more deli cate and careful Spirit of Modesty , appears in the following Passage in one of Mr. Philips's Pastorals , Breathe Breathe soft ye Winds , ye ...
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... Ideas , converses with its Objects at the greatest Distance , and continues the longest in Action without being tired or satiated with its proper Enjoyments . The Sense of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Extension , Shape , and ...
... Ideas , converses with its Objects at the greatest Distance , and continues the longest in Action without being tired or satiated with its proper Enjoyments . The Sense of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Extension , Shape , and ...
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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 Visions of Things that are either Absent 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 Visions of Things that are either Absent or Fictitious , The Pleasures of the Imagination ...
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... Idea of which it was not before possest , We are indeed so often conversant with one Sett of Objects , and tired out with so many repeated Shows of the same Things , that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human ...
... Idea of which it was not before possest , We are indeed so often conversant with one Sett of Objects , and tired out with so many repeated Shows of the same Things , that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human ...
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Page 163 - 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.
Page 253 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 11 - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since have pointed unto, your Grace being not ignorant of my suspicion therein. But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise...
Page 275 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 253 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
Page 56 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision that are most agreeable to the Imagination...
Page 253 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 58 - 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 155 - 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 10 - YOUR grace's displeasure, and my imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be mine ancient professed enemy.