Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 - English essays |
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... particular object . It is this , likewise , that improves what is great or beautiful , and makes it afford the mind a double entertainment . Groves , fields , and meadows , are at any season of the year pleasant to look upon , but never ...
... particular object . It is this , likewise , that improves what is great or beautiful , and makes it afford the mind a double entertainment . Groves , fields , and meadows , are at any season of the year pleasant to look upon , but never ...
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... particular beauty of a plantation that thus strikes the imagination at first sight , without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect . Our British gardeners , on the contrary , instead of humouring nature , love to ...
... particular beauty of a plantation that thus strikes the imagination at first sight , without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect . Our British gardeners , on the contrary , instead of humouring nature , love to ...
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... particular ideas , to enlarge , compound , and vary them at her own pleasure . Among the different kinds of representation , statuary is the most natural , and shows us something likest the object that is represented . To make use of a ...
... particular ideas , to enlarge , compound , and vary them at her own pleasure . Among the different kinds of representation , statuary is the most natural , and shows us something likest the object that is represented . To make use of a ...
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... particular beauties : as a person with a weak sight may have the confused prospect of a place that lies before him , without entering into its several parts , or discerning the variety of its colours in their full glory and perfection ...
... particular beauties : as a person with a weak sight may have the confused prospect of a place that lies before him , without entering into its several parts , or discerning the variety of its colours in their full glory and perfection ...
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... particular care to make his hero so . 66 lumenque juventæ Purpureum , et lætos oculis afflavit honores . " - ÆN . i . 594 . " And gave his rolling eyes a sparkling grace , And breath'd a youthful vigour on his face . " - Dryden . In a ...
... particular care to make his hero so . 66 lumenque juventæ Purpureum , et lætos oculis afflavit honores . " - ÆN . i . 594 . " And gave his rolling eyes a sparkling grace , And breath'd a youthful vigour on his face . " - Dryden . In a ...
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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...