The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 38
... endeavoured rectify and amend it , they needed not to have sacri- ficed their good sense and virtue to their fame and reputation . No man is so sunk in vice and igno- rance , but there are still some hidden seeds of good to ness and ...
... endeavoured rectify and amend it , they needed not to have sacri- ficed their good sense and virtue to their fame and reputation . No man is so sunk in vice and igno- rance , but there are still some hidden seeds of good to ness and ...
Strana 158
... endeavoured to ex- press my duty and esteem for the church of England , and design this as an essay upon the civil part of our constitution , having often entertained myself with reflections on this subject , which I have not met with ...
... endeavoured to ex- press my duty and esteem for the church of England , and design this as an essay upon the civil part of our constitution , having often entertained myself with reflections on this subject , which I have not met with ...
Strana 178
... endeavoured to signalize them- selves by works of this nature , among our English writers , are not only defective in the above - men- tioned particulars , but plainly discover , by the phrases which they make use of , and by their ...
... endeavoured to signalize them- selves by works of this nature , among our English writers , are not only defective in the above - men- tioned particulars , but plainly discover , by the phrases which they make use of , and by their ...
Strana 205
... endeavoured to cure it by several expedients ; particularly by the mortification which the great adversary of mankind meets with upon his return to the assembly of in- fernal spirits , as it is described in a beautiful passage of the ...
... endeavoured to cure it by several expedients ; particularly by the mortification which the great adversary of mankind meets with upon his return to the assembly of in- fernal spirits , as it is described in a beautiful passage of the ...
Strana 228
... endeavoured to have fied , but the phantom caught you in his arms . You may easily guess at the change you suffered in this embrace . For my own part , though I am still too full of the dreadful idea , I will not shock you with a ...
... endeavoured to have fied , but the phantom caught you in his arms . You may easily guess at the change you suffered in this embrace . For my own part , though I am still too full of the dreadful idea , I will not shock you with a ...
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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...