The Spectator, Volume 6J. and R. Tonson, 1728 |
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Page 12
... Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , fuch as Night , the ' Devil , & . These Portraitures very near over- power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties , and give that melancho- ly Tincture to the ...
... Ideas and Pictures as are hardly any thing but Shade , fuch as Night , the ' Devil , & . These Portraitures very near over- power the Light of the Understanding , almost benight the Faculties , and give that melancho- ly Tincture to the ...
Page 29
... Idea more loofe than that of a beautiful Woman fet off to Advantage , The like , or a more delicate and careful Spirit of Modefty , appears in the following Paffage in one of Mr. Philips's Pastorals . Breathe foft ye Winds , ye Waters ...
... Idea more loofe than that of a beautiful Woman fet off to Advantage , The like , or a more delicate and careful Spirit of Modefty , appears in the following Paffage in one of Mr. Philips's Pastorals . Breathe foft ye Winds , ye Waters ...
Page 71
... Ideas , converses with its Objects at the greatest Distance , and continues the longest in Action without being tired or fati- ated with its proper Enjoyments . The Senfe of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Extenfion , Shape , and ...
... Ideas , converses with its Objects at the greatest Distance , and continues the longest in Action without being tired or fati- ated with its proper Enjoyments . The Senfe of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Extenfion , Shape , and ...
Page 72
... Ideas of vifible Ob- jects , when the Objects are not actually before the Eye , but are called up into our Memories , or formed into agreeable Vifions of Things that are either Abfent or Fictitious . THE Pleasures of the Imagination ...
... Ideas of vifible Ob- jects , when the Objects are not actually before the Eye , but are called up into our Memories , or formed into agreeable Vifions of Things that are either Abfent or Fictitious . THE Pleasures of the Imagination ...
Page 76
... Idea of which it was not before poffelt . We are indeed fo often conver- fant with one Set of Objects , and tired out with fo many repeated Shows of the fame Things , that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human ...
... Idea of which it was not before poffelt . We are indeed fo often conver- fant with one Set of Objects , and tired out with fo many repeated Shows of the fame Things , that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human ...
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