The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... frequent no public places , or make any visits where the character of a modest wife is ridiculous . As for your wild raillery on ma- trimony , it is all hypocrisy ; you and all the hand- some young women of your acquaintance , shew your ...
... frequent no public places , or make any visits where the character of a modest wife is ridiculous . As for your wild raillery on ma- trimony , it is all hypocrisy ; you and all the hand- some young women of your acquaintance , shew your ...
Strana 14
... frequently made use of in private conversation , That he was satisfied with his share of life and fame . ' Se satis vel ad naturam , vel ad gloriam vixisse . Many indeed have given over their pursuits after fame , but that has pro ...
... frequently made use of in private conversation , That he was satisfied with his share of life and fame . ' Se satis vel ad naturam , vel ad gloriam vixisse . Many indeed have given over their pursuits after fame , but that has pro ...
Strana 34
... frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged partly by his advice , and partly by my own inclinations , in the courtship of a person who had a great deal of beauty , and did not at my first ap ...
... frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged partly by his advice , and partly by my own inclinations , in the courtship of a person who had a great deal of beauty , and did not at my first ap ...
Strana 42
... frequently resume subjects which serve to bind these sort of relations faster , and endear the ties of blood with those of good - will , protection , observance , indulgence , and veneration . I would , methinks , have this done after ...
... frequently resume subjects which serve to bind these sort of relations faster , and endear the ties of blood with those of good - will , protection , observance , indulgence , and veneration . I would , methinks , have this done after ...
Strana 44
... frequently remembered , but never wanted . This commerce is so well cemented , that without the pomp of saying , Son , be a friend to such a one when I am gone ; " Camillus knows , being in his favour is direction enough to the grateful ...
... frequently remembered , but never wanted . This commerce is so well cemented , that without the pomp of saying , Son , be a friend to such a one when I am gone ; " Camillus knows , being in his favour is direction enough to the grateful ...
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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...