The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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I shall next Sa , turday enter upon an essay on ' The Pleasures of the Imagination
, ' which , though it shall consider the subject at large , will perhaps suggest to the
reader what it is that gives a beauty to many passages of the finest writers both ...
I shall next Sa , turday enter upon an essay on ' The Pleasures of the Imagination
, ' which , though it shall consider the subject at large , will perhaps suggest to the
reader what it is that gives a beauty to many passages of the finest writers both ...
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... 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 all other ideas that enter at the
eye ...
... 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 all other ideas that enter at the
eye ...
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Alexander Chalmers. Before I enter upon the particular parts of her character , it
is necessary to preface , that she is the only child of a decrepid father , whose life
is bound up in hers . This gentleman has used Fidelia from her cradle with all the
...
Alexander Chalmers. Before I enter upon the particular parts of her character , it
is necessary to preface , that she is the only child of a decrepid father , whose life
is bound up in hers . This gentleman has used Fidelia from her cradle with all the
...
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... wives , and widows , which deserve the imitation of the sex . She who shall
lead this small illus - . trious number of heroines shall be the amiable Fidelia ,
Before I enter upon the particular parts of her character 302 SPECTATOR . N°
449 .
... wives , and widows , which deserve the imitation of the sex . She who shall
lead this small illus - . trious number of heroines shall be the amiable Fidelia ,
Before I enter upon the particular parts of her character 302 SPECTATOR . N°
449 .
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... wives , and widowy , which deservethe imnitation of the nex . She who shall
lead this small illustrious number of heroincs shall be theamiable l ' ideliu , Before
I enter upon the particular parts of her character 302 SPECTATOR . N9 449 .
... wives , and widowy , which deservethe imnitation of the nex . She who shall
lead this small illustrious number of heroincs shall be theamiable l ' ideliu , Before
I enter upon the particular parts of her character 302 SPECTATOR . N9 449 .
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Strana 201 - care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. ir. ' When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain pant; To fertile
Strana 201 - and dewy meads My weary, wand'ring steps he leads; . Where peaceful rivers, soft, and slow, Amid the verdant landscape flow. III. « Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My stedfast heart shall fear no ill,
Strana 107 - inquiring into the particular causes and occasions of it. A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and
Strana vii - always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not
Strana 107 - more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe. It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with, its ideas; so that by ' the pleasures of the imagination,' or ' fancy,
Strana 201 - Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ANON. MAN, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on
Strana 8 - as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe; that London bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the seven wonders of the world ; with many other honest
Strana 131 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heav'n with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Strana 198 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber ; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings
Strana 8 - You must know," says sir Roger, ' I never make use of any body to row me, that has not lost either a leg or an arm. I would rather bate him a few strokes of his oar than not employ an honest man that has been wounded in the queen's service. If I was a lord
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| Názov | The British Essayists: The Spectator The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical – Zväzok 12, Alexander Chalmers |
| Autor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Vydavateľ | J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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