The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Volume 11808 |
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... express them with clearness , elegance , and humour : yet he had not genius to execute any thing very masterly of his own . He composed six cantatas , whose intention seems to have been to exclude the Italian opera§ ; and they are ...
... express them with clearness , elegance , and humour : yet he had not genius to execute any thing very masterly of his own . He composed six cantatas , whose intention seems to have been to exclude the Italian opera§ ; and they are ...
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... express our conviction that ADDISON was a man of moral excellence , no less exalted than his intellectual endow- ments . Though belonging to a party , he loved goodness , and venerated talents in those of the opposite side * . His ...
... express our conviction that ADDISON was a man of moral excellence , no less exalted than his intellectual endow- ments . Though belonging to a party , he loved goodness , and venerated talents in those of the opposite side * . His ...
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... express their ideas in books , which by this great invention of these latter ages may last as long as the sun and moon , and perish only in the general wreck of nature . Thus Cowley in his Poem on the Resurrection , mentioning the ...
... express their ideas in books , which by this great invention of these latter ages may last as long as the sun and moon , and perish only in the general wreck of nature . Thus Cowley in his Poem on the Resurrection , mentioning the ...
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... express it by nothing but his tears , which ran like a river down his cheeks as he looked upon her . He had not stood in this posture long , before he plunged into the stream that lay before him ; and finding it to be nothing but the ...
... express it by nothing but his tears , which ran like a river down his cheeks as he looked upon her . He had not stood in this posture long , before he plunged into the stream that lay before him ; and finding it to be nothing but the ...
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... express this art of imposing upon the spectators by appearances ; they call it the fourberia della scena " the knavery , or trickish part of the drama . " But however the show and outside of the tragedy may work upon the vulgar , the ...
... express this art of imposing upon the spectators by appearances ; they call it the fourberia della scena " the knavery , or trickish part of the drama . " But however the show and outside of the tragedy may work upon the vulgar , the ...
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Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
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Page 42 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Page 118 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 176 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Page 42 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Page 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.