Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volum 2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 |
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Pàgina 5
... appearance . It serves us for a kind of refreshment , and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of , in our usual and ordinary entertainments . It is this that bestows charms on a monster , and makes even the imperfections ...
... appearance . It serves us for a kind of refreshment , and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of , in our usual and ordinary entertainments . It is this that bestows charms on a monster , and makes even the imperfections ...
Pàgina 10
... appearance to the eye , if we saw them only in their proper figures and motions : and what reason can we assign for their exciting in us many of those ideas which are different from anything that exists in the objects themselves ( for ...
... appearance to the eye , if we saw them only in their proper figures and motions : and what reason can we assign for their exciting in us many of those ideas which are different from anything that exists in the objects themselves ( for ...
Pàgina 13
... appeared the green shadows of trees , waving to and fro with the wind , and herds of deer among them in minia- ture , leaping about upon the wall . I must confess , the novelty of such a sight may be one occasion of its plea- santness ...
... appeared the green shadows of trees , waving to and fro with the wind , and herds of deer among them in minia- ture , leaping about upon the wall . I must confess , the novelty of such a sight may be one occasion of its plea- santness ...
Pàgina 16
... little . Thus , per- haps , a man would have been more astonished with the majestic air that appeared in one of Lysippus's statues of Alexander , though no bigger than the life , than 16 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR .
... little . Thus , per- haps , a man would have been more astonished with the majestic air that appeared in one of Lysippus's statues of Alexander , though no bigger than the life , than 16 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR .
Pàgina 28
... appearance they make , the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety . In short , we look upon the terrors of a description with the same curiosity and satisfaction that we survey a dead monster . 66 66 Informe ...
... appearance they make , the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety . In short , we look upon the terrors of a description with the same curiosity and satisfaction that we survey a dead monster . 66 66 Informe ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 282 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Pàgina 273 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Pàgina 272 - Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? ' thus leave " Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, " Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend " Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day " That must be mortal to us both.
Pàgina 203 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose. He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Pàgina 282 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Pàgina 199 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Pàgina 99 - ... which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church : for he was heard to say some time ago, that if he lived two years longer, Coverley church should have a steeple to it.
Pàgina 114 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those Who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Pàgina 210 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Pàgina 281 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...