The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 1
... thought , which many young women of quality have enter- tained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain misfortune of their lives . The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at , and ...
... thought , which many young women of quality have enter- tained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain misfortune of their lives . The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at , and ...
Strana 3
... thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage a family with admirable pru dence ; she dies to see what demure and serious airs wedlock has given you , but she says , she shall never forgive your choice of so gallant a man as ...
... thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage a family with admirable pru dence ; she dies to see what demure and serious airs wedlock has given you , but she says , she shall never forgive your choice of so gallant a man as ...
Strana 4
... thoughts . These things , dear ma- dam , will be lasting satisfactions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs , by whom they form themselves ... thought on any other way . My mind has ever since been so wholly SPECTATOR . N ° 254 .
... thoughts . These things , dear ma- dam , will be lasting satisfactions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs , by whom they form themselves ... thought on any other way . My mind has ever since been so wholly SPECTATOR . N ° 254 .
Strana 6
... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his interest or convenience ; or that Providence , in the very frame of his soul , would not subject him to such a passion as would be useless to the world , and ...
... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his interest or convenience ; or that Providence , in the very frame of his soul , would not subject him to such a passion as would be useless to the world , and ...
Strana 13
... thought . It is still reaching after an empty ima- ginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it . Most other things we long for , can allay the cravings of their proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at ...
... thought . It is still reaching after an empty ima- ginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it . Most other things we long for , can allay the cravings of their proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at ...
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acquainted action admirer Æneas Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour cerned character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances consider creature critics desire discourse dress endeavoured entertainment Enville epic poem epic poetry excellent eyes fable fame faults favour FEBRUARY 12 fortune give greatest Greek happiness head heart holy orders Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad infernal innocent Julius Cæsar kind ladies language late letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage Milton mind misfortune mistress nature never obliged observed occasion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage 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...