The Spectator, Volume 4J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 58
... Imagination so much as the Sea or Ocean . I cannot see the Heavings of this prodigious Bulk of Waters , even in a Calm , without a very pleasing Astonishment , but when it is worked up in a Tempest , so that the Horizon on every Side is ...
... Imagination so much as the Sea or Ocean . I cannot see the Heavings of this prodigious Bulk of Waters , even in a Calm , without a very pleasing Astonishment , but when it is worked up in a Tempest , so that the Horizon on every Side is ...
Page 59
... Imagination , and which really happen in the Raging of a Tempest . It is for the same Reason , that I prefer the following Description of a Ship in a Storm , which the Psalmist has made , before any other I have ever met with . They ...
... Imagination , and which really happen in the Raging of a Tempest . It is for the same Reason , that I prefer the following Description of a Ship in a Storm , which the Psalmist has made , before any other I have ever met with . They ...
Page 65
... Imagination . The Writings that please me most on such Occasions are Stories , for the Truth of which there is good Authority . The Mind of a Man is naturally a Lover of Justice , and when we read a Story wherein a Criminal is overtaken ...
... Imagination . The Writings that please me most on such Occasions are Stories , for the Truth of which there is good Authority . The Mind of a Man is naturally a Lover of Justice , and when we read a Story wherein a Criminal is overtaken ...
Page 99
... Imagination after it ! And how does it turn into it self again , more foolishly fond and dejected , at the Disappointment ! Our Grief , instead of having Recourse to Reason , which might restrain it , searches to find a further ...
... Imagination after it ! And how does it turn into it self again , more foolishly fond and dejected , at the Disappointment ! Our Grief , instead of having Recourse to Reason , which might restrain it , searches to find a further ...
Page 101
... Imaginations , and Anguish suffering out ward Troubles to suck the Blood from her Heart in the Shape of Vultures . The whole Vault had a genuine Dismallness in it , which a few scattered Lamps , whose blueish Flames arose and sunk in ...
... Imaginations , and Anguish suffering out ward Troubles to suck the Blood from her Heart in the Shape of Vultures . The whole Vault had a genuine Dismallness in it , which a few scattered Lamps , whose blueish Flames arose and sunk in ...
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