The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Том 41751 |
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... beauty of common actions . Learning confers fo much fuperiority on those who poffefs it , that they might probably have efca- ped all cenfure , had they been able to agree among themselves . But as envy and competition have di- vided ...
... beauty of common actions . Learning confers fo much fuperiority on those who poffefs it , that they might probably have efca- ped all cenfure , had they been able to agree among themselves . But as envy and competition have di- vided ...
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... beauty is vague and undefined , different in dif- ferent minds , and diverfified by time or place . It has been indeed a term hitherto used to fignify , that which pleases us we know not why ; and in VOL . IV . Qur our approbation of ...
... beauty is vague and undefined , different in dif- ferent minds , and diverfified by time or place . It has been indeed a term hitherto used to fignify , that which pleases us we know not why ; and in VOL . IV . Qur our approbation of ...
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... beauty . To trace all the fources of that various pleasure which we afcribe to the agency of beauty , or to difentangle all the perceptions involved in its idea , would perhaps require a very great part of the life of an Ariftotle or ...
... beauty . To trace all the fources of that various pleasure which we afcribe to the agency of beauty , or to difentangle all the perceptions involved in its idea , would perhaps require a very great part of the life of an Ariftotle or ...
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... beauty , has been particularly celebrated by Dionyfius , as he that , of all the poets , had the greatest variety of found : for there are ( fays he ) innumerable paffages , in which length of time , bulk of body , extremity of paffion ...
... beauty , has been particularly celebrated by Dionyfius , as he that , of all the poets , had the greatest variety of found : for there are ( fays he ) innumerable paffages , in which length of time , bulk of body , extremity of paffion ...
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... beauty and deformity with those whom for any reafon we love or hate . Yet it would be too daring to declare that all the celebrated adaptations of harmony are chimerical ; that Homer had no extraordinary attention to the melody of his ...
... beauty and deformity with those whom for any reafon we love or hate . Yet it would be too daring to declare that all the celebrated adaptations of harmony are chimerical ; that Homer had no extraordinary attention to the melody of his ...
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accuſtomed affiftance againſt amufe amuſements becauſe caufe compariſon confequence confidered converfation curiofity defire delight Demochares difcovered difpofition eafy eaſily endeavoured equally eſtabliſhed eſteem FALSEHOOD fame fcarcely fecurity feems feize feldom felves fenfe fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fingle fions firft firſt flatter Flavia fome fometimes foon fpecies friendſhip ftate ftudies fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuperiority fupply furely fyllables happineſs harmony herſelf himſelf hope houſe inclination increaſe intereft kindneſs labour laſt learning leaſt lefs leſs loft LONDON mankind meaſure ments Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary neceffity nefs NUMBER obferved occafion ourſelves OVID paffages paffed paffions paufes pleafing pleaſed pleaſure praife praiſe precepts prefent preferved purchaſe purpoſe queſtion raiſe RAMBLER reafon refolved reft ſhe ſtate ſtudy thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion TRUTH underſtanding univerfal uſe verfe verfification verſe virtue whofe whoſe
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Страница 188 - ... for that help which could not now be given him ; and many spent their last moments in cautioning others against the folly by which they were intercepted in the midst of their course.
Страница 93 - But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Страница 188 - This necessity of perishing might have been expected to sadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at least to keep the melancholy and timorous in perpetual torments, and hinder them from any enjoyment of the varieties and gratifications which nature offered them as the solace of their labours ; yet in effect none seemed less to expect destruction than those to whom it was most dreadful ; they all had the art of...
Страница 190 - ... out from the rocks of Pleasure, that they were unable to continue their...
Страница 124 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights ; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipp'd in heaven ; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail Sky-tinctured grain.
Страница 145 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Страница 187 - ... but a little way. It appeared to be full of rocks and whirlpools, for many sunk unexpectedly while they were courting the gale with full sails, and insulting those whom they had left behind.
Страница 190 - ... rotations, towards the centre. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured to retreat ; but the draught of the...
Страница 112 - Rapidity, as to be equal only to one long; they, therefore, naturally exhibit the Act of passing through a Long space in a short Time.
Страница 6 - Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him whom he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.