The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 16
... tell my reader , that I mean by this end , that happiness which is reserved for us in another world , which every one has abilities to pro- cure , and which will bring along with it , ' fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore . ' How ...
... tell my reader , that I mean by this end , that happiness which is reserved for us in another world , which every one has abilities to pro- cure , and which will bring along with it , ' fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore . ' How ...
Strana 32
... tell me of waiting until decencies , until forms , until humours are consulted and gratified , If you have that happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that all that while I burn in impatiences ...
... tell me of waiting until decencies , until forms , until humours are consulted and gratified , If you have that happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that all that while I burn in impatiences ...
Strana 33
... tell me of it . Do not you think she is in love with me ? or would you have me break my mind yet , or not ? MR . SPECTATOR , Your servant , " T. B. ' I AM a footman in a great family , and am in love with the house - maid . We were all ...
... tell me of it . Do not you think she is in love with me ? or would you have me break my mind yet , or not ? MR . SPECTATOR , Your servant , " T. B. ' I AM a footman in a great family , and am in love with the house - maid . We were all ...
Strana 46
... tell you , I will have my rent duly paid , for I will make up to your sisters for the partiality I was guilty of , in making your father do so much as he has done for you . I may , it seems , live upon half my jointure ! I lived upon ...
... tell you , I will have my rent duly paid , for I will make up to your sisters for the partiality I was guilty of , in making your father do so much as he has done for you . I may , it seems , live upon half my jointure ! I lived upon ...
Strana 49
... mere choice , and an elegant desire of ease and dis- incumbrance . It would look like romance to tell you in this age , of an old man who is contented to VOL . X. F pass for an humourist , and one who does not N ° 264 . 49 SPECTATOR .
... mere choice , and an elegant desire of ease and dis- incumbrance . It would look like romance to tell you in this age , of an old man who is contented to VOL . X. F pass for an humourist , and one who does not N ° 264 . 49 SPECTATOR .
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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...