Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 - English essays |
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... delights the soul as much as a demonstration ; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle . Besides , the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage above those of the understanding , that they ...
... delights the soul as much as a demonstration ; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle . Besides , the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage above those of the understanding , that they ...
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... delights , but , like a gentle exercise to the faculties , awaken them from sloth and idleness , without putting ... Delightful scenes , whether in nature , painting , or poetry , have a kindly influ- ence on the body as well as the mind ...
... delights , but , like a gentle exercise to the faculties , awaken them from sloth and idleness , without putting ... Delightful scenes , whether in nature , painting , or poetry , have a kindly influ- ence on the body as well as the mind ...
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... delight in the very disgust it gives us , as any of these three qualifications are most conspicuous and prevailing . By greatness , I do not only mean the bulk of any single object , but the largeness of a whole view , considered as one ...
... delight in the very disgust it gives us , as any of these three qualifications are most conspicuous and prevailing . By greatness , I do not only mean the bulk of any single object , but the largeness of a whole view , considered as one ...
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... delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them . The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks like a restraint upon it , and is apt to fancy itself under a sort of confinement , when the sight is ...
... delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehensions of them . The mind of man naturally hates everything that looks like a restraint upon it , and is apt to fancy itself under a sort of confinement , when the sight is ...
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... delight through all its faculties . There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another , because we might have been so made , that whatsoever now appears loathsome to us , might have shown itself ...
... delight through all its faculties . There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another , because we might have been so made , that whatsoever now appears loathsome to us , might have shown itself ...
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Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...