The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 82
... VIRG . Æn . iv . 701 . Drawing a thousand colours from the light . DRYDEN . I RECEIVE a double advantage from the letters of my correspondents ; first , as they shew me which of my papers are most acceptable to them ; and in the next ...
... VIRG . Æn . iv . 701 . Drawing a thousand colours from the light . DRYDEN . I RECEIVE a double advantage from the letters of my correspondents ; first , as they shew me which of my papers are most acceptable to them ; and in the next ...
Strana 86
... VIRG . Æn . i . 345 . Great is the injury , and long the tale . ' MR . SPECTATOR , ' THE Occasion of this letter is of so great importance , and the circumstances of it such , that I know you will but think it just to insert it , in ...
... VIRG . Æn . i . 345 . Great is the injury , and long the tale . ' MR . SPECTATOR , ' THE Occasion of this letter is of so great importance , and the circumstances of it such , that I know you will but think it just to insert it , in ...
Strana 128
... VIRG . Æn . iv . 64 . Anxious the reeking entrails he consults . HAVING already given an account of the dissec- tion of a beau's head , with the several discoveries made on that occasion ; I shall here , according to my promise , enter ...
... VIRG . Æn . iv . 64 . Anxious the reeking entrails he consults . HAVING already given an account of the dissec- tion of a beau's head , with the several discoveries made on that occasion ; I shall here , according to my promise , enter ...
Strana 142
... VIRG . Ecl . vii . 17 . Their mirth to share , I bid my business wait . AN affected behaviour is without question a very great charm ; but under the notion of being uncon- strained and disengaged , people take upon them to be ...
... VIRG . Ecl . vii . 17 . Their mirth to share , I bid my business wait . AN affected behaviour is without question a very great charm ; but under the notion of being uncon- strained and disengaged , people take upon them to be ...
Strana 229
... VIRG . Æn . v . 343 . Becoming sorrows , and a virtuous mind More lovely , in a beauteous form inshrin'd . I READ what I give for the entertainment of this day with a great deal of pleasure , and publish it just as it came to my hands ...
... VIRG . Æn . v . 343 . Becoming sorrows , and a virtuous mind More lovely , in a beauteous form inshrin'd . I READ what I give for the entertainment of this day with a great deal of pleasure , and publish it just as it came to my hands ...
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Strana 238 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Strana 275 - Heaven that He ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption — thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
Strana 237 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Strana 242 - A shout, that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air...
Strana 238 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world! And thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time!
Strana 123 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Strana 237 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Strana 151 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Strana 240 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Strana 238 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...