The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... charms and fortune on him . There is no indecency in the confession , the design is modest and honourable , and all your affectation cannot disguise it . " I am married , and have no other concern but to please the man I love ; he is ...
... charms and fortune on him . There is no indecency in the confession , the design is modest and honourable , and all your affectation cannot disguise it . " I am married , and have no other concern but to please the man I love ; he is ...
Strana 36
... charms ; and if you have such a passion for her , it is odds but it would be imbittered with fears and jea- lousies . Good - nature and evenness of temper will give you an easy companion for life ; virtue and good sense , an agreeable ...
... charms ; and if you have such a passion for her , it is odds but it would be imbittered with fears and jea- lousies . Good - nature and evenness of temper will give you an easy companion for life ; virtue and good sense , an agreeable ...
Strana 55
... charms in the greatest abundance upon the female part of our species , so they are very assiduous in bestowing upon themselves the finest garnitures of art . The peacock , in all his pride , does not display half the colours that appear ...
... charms in the greatest abundance upon the female part of our species , so they are very assiduous in bestowing upon themselves the finest garnitures of art . The peacock , in all his pride , does not display half the colours that appear ...
Strana 56
... charm for every heart . My friend Will , who very much values himself upon his great insight into gallantry , tells me , that he can already guess at the humour a lady is in by her hood , as the courtiers of Morocco know the dis ...
... charm for every heart . My friend Will , who very much values himself upon his great insight into gallantry , tells me , that he can already guess at the humour a lady is in by her hood , as the courtiers of Morocco know the dis ...
Strana 71
... charms were so attracting , that it drew my eyes wholly on that side , insomuch that I neglected my own way , and chanced to run my nose directly against a post ; which the lady no sooner perceived , but she fell into a fit of laughter ...
... charms were so attracting , that it drew my eyes wholly on that side , insomuch that I neglected my own way , and chanced to run my nose directly against a post ; which the lady no sooner perceived , but she fell into a fit of laughter ...
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acquainted action admirer Æneas Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour cerned character charms circumstances colours consider creature critics desire discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour entertainment Enville epic poem epic poetry eyes fable fame faults favour FEBRUARY 18 female fortune give greatest Greek happiness head heart holy orders Homer honour hoods hope humble servant humour Iliad infernal innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady language late letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage Milton mind misfortune Moloch nature never obliged observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion perfect person pin-money pleased pleasure poet pray present prince proper racters reader reason sentiments shew Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR spirit tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
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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...