The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Agreeable to their name , the avowed design of their institution is mischief ; and upon this foun- dation all their rules and orders are franied . An out- rageous ambition of doing all possible hurt to their fellow creatures , is the ...
... Agreeable to their name , the avowed design of their institution is mischief ; and upon this foun- dation all their rules and orders are franied . An out- rageous ambition of doing all possible hurt to their fellow creatures , is the ...
Strana 29
... agreeable parts in this divine work . The natural majesty of Adam , and , at the same time , his submissive behaviour to the superior being who had vouchsafed to be his guest ; the solemn hail ' which the angel bestows upon the mother ...
... agreeable parts in this divine work . The natural majesty of Adam , and , at the same time , his submissive behaviour to the superior being who had vouchsafed to be his guest ; the solemn hail ' which the angel bestows upon the mother ...
Strana 46
... agreeable company . As soon as I had extricated myself from that shame- ful confinement , I reflected upon it with so much horror , that I deserted all my old acquaintance , and took chambers in an inn of court , with a resolution to ...
... agreeable company . As soon as I had extricated myself from that shame- ful confinement , I reflected upon it with so much horror , that I deserted all my old acquaintance , and took chambers in an inn of court , with a resolution to ...
Strana 59
... agreeable enough to the ideas most readers would conceive of a fight between two armies of angels . The second day's engagement is apt to startle an imagination which has not been raised and qualified for such a description , by the ...
... agreeable enough to the ideas most readers would conceive of a fight between two armies of angels . The second day's engagement is apt to startle an imagination which has not been raised and qualified for such a description , by the ...
Strana 67
... agreeable as he who sits by him with- out any of those advantages . When we read , we do it without any exerted act of memory that pre- sents the shape of the letters ; but habit makes us do it mechanically , without staying , like ...
... agreeable as he who sits by him with- out any of those advantages . When we read , we do it without any exerted act of memory that pre- sents the shape of the letters ; but habit makes us do it mechanically , without staying , like ...
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Strana 266 - the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.' If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem would end better with the passage
Strana 12 - dare say my reader will pardon me the quotation. ON THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE. ‘Underneath this marble hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast kill'd another, Fair and learn'd, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Strana 230 - the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God. -- ‘ To heaven their prayer - Flew up, nor miss'd the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate; in they pass'd - Dimensionless through heav'nly doors, then clad With incense, where the golden altar, fum'd
Strana 137 - and left some part Not proof enough such object to sustain; Or from my side subducting, took perhaps More than enough; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show - Elaborate, of inward less exact. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, - And in herself complete, so well to know
Strana 19 - desire, Had not a voice thus warn'd me: “What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming and thy soft embraces: he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine; to
Strana 137 - falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shews: Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe • About her, as a
Strana 199 - and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him: and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with sickness, and with the beasts of the earth.' Under this first head of celestial persons we must likewise take notice -of the
Strana 134 - Thou Sun,' said I, ‘fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus? how here?' His next sentiment, when, upon his first going to
Strana 104 - jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road; the gray Dawn. and the Pleiades before him danc'd, Shedding sweet influence. Less bright the moon, -. But opposite in levell'd west was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other lights she needed none- In that aspect, and still the distance