The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... attending to it . The heart rejoices of its own accord , and naturally flows out into friendship and benevolence towards the per- son who has so kindly an effect upon it . When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third ...
... attending to it . The heart rejoices of its own accord , and naturally flows out into friendship and benevolence towards the per- son who has so kindly an effect upon it . When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third ...
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... attended only by four gentlemen , and a few domestics of little consideration . The Baron de Bothmar * having delivered in his credentials to qualify him as an ambassador to this state ( an office to which his greatest enemies will ...
... attended only by four gentlemen , and a few domestics of little consideration . The Baron de Bothmar * having delivered in his credentials to qualify him as an ambassador to this state ( an office to which his greatest enemies will ...
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... attended with a certain cheerfulness , but very often see cheerfulness where there is no great degree of health . Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard to the mind as to the body . It banishes all anxious care and discontent ...
... attended with a certain cheerfulness , but very often see cheerfulness where there is no great degree of health . Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard to the mind as to the body . It banishes all anxious care and discontent ...
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... attend ; Then all were mine ! ' WHERE Homer represents Phoenix , the tutor of Achilles , as persuading his pupil to lay aside his resentments , and give himself up to the entreaties of his countrymen , the poet , in order to make him ...
... attend ; Then all were mine ! ' WHERE Homer represents Phoenix , the tutor of Achilles , as persuading his pupil to lay aside his resentments , and give himself up to the entreaties of his countrymen , the poet , in order to make him ...
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... attended until I had been consult- ed . Flavia coloured her hair before me , Celia shewed me her teeth , Panthea heaved her bosom , Cleora brandished her diamond ; I have seen Chloe's foot , and tied artificially the garters of Rhodope ...
... attended until I had been consult- ed . Flavia coloured her hair before me , Celia shewed me her teeth , Panthea heaved her bosom , Cleora brandished her diamond ; I have seen Chloe's foot , and tied artificially the garters of Rhodope ...
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acquaint admired Æneid affected agreeable Alexandrinus Ann Boleyn appear arise attended Basilius Valentinus beautiful beholder body called Callisthenes charms cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation CORNELIUS NEPOS creature Cynthio delight desire discourse easy ac endeavour entertaining eyes faculty fancy father Flavia gentleman give Gloriana grace hand happy heart Honeycomb honour human humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination Julius Cæsar JUNE Jupiter kind lady letter live look lover manner Menippus mind nation nature never objects observed OVID paper particular passed passions Pentheus perfection persons pleasant pleasing pleasure poet poetry present proper racter raise reader reason receive reflections Roger de Coverley satisfaction scenes secret Sempronia sense shew sight sions soul Spanish monarchy SPECTATOR spirits taste temper thing thought tion town ture VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words writing
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Page 1 - 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 give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with...
Page 123 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees...
Page 184 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 184 - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Page 243 - 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 53 - And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, Appear'd, with gay...
Page 252 - 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 noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 114 - I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 67 - 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; I no sooner received this message by him than I rightly conceived your meaning; and if, as you say, confessing a truth, indeed may procure my safety, I shall with all willingness and duty perform your command.
Page 69 - ... where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not (whatsoever the world may think of me) mine innocence shall be openly known, and sufficiently cleared. ' My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace's displeasure...