The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Strana 38
... excellent parents to answer for ; but when I am now and then alone , and look back upon my past life , from my earliest infancy to this time , there are many faults which I committed that did not ap- pear to me , even until I myself ...
... excellent parents to answer for ; but when I am now and then alone , and look back upon my past life , from my earliest infancy to this time , there are many faults which I committed that did not ap- pear to me , even until I myself ...
Strana 48
... excellent faculty in mi- mickry my correspondents tell me he can assume my air , and give my taciturnity a slyness which diverts more than any thing I could say if I were present . Thus I am glad my silence is atoned for to the good ...
... excellent faculty in mi- mickry my correspondents tell me he can assume my air , and give my taciturnity a slyness which diverts more than any thing I could say if I were present . Thus I am glad my silence is atoned for to the good ...
Strana 57
... excellent , and have the true spirit of co- medy ; though it were to be wished the author had added a circumstance which should make Leu- cippe's business more odious . It must not be thought a digression from my in- tended speculation ...
... excellent , and have the true spirit of co- medy ; though it were to be wished the author had added a circumstance which should make Leu- cippe's business more odious . It must not be thought a digression from my in- tended speculation ...
Strana 122
... excellent judge of human life , and passed his own in company the most agreeable that ever was in the world . Augustus lived amongst his friends , as if he had his fortune to make in his own court . Candour and affability , accompanied ...
... excellent judge of human life , and passed his own in company the most agreeable that ever was in the world . Augustus lived amongst his friends , as if he had his fortune to make in his own court . Candour and affability , accompanied ...
Strana 166
... excellent piece , has not perhaps read one of the strongest persuasives to a religious life that ever was written in any language . The consideration with which I shall close this essay upon death , is one of the most ancient and most ...
... excellent piece , has not perhaps read one of the strongest persuasives to a religious life that ever was written in any language . The consideration with which I shall close this essay upon death , is one of the most ancient and most ...
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Strana 232 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Strana 234 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 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 343 - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he, in delight Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Strana 234 - 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...
Strana 234 - 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 165 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Strana 344 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Strana 271 - To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new worlds...
Strana 342 - So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Strana 60 - ¿Eneid also labours in this particular, and has episodes which may be looked upon as excrescences rather than as parts of the action. On the contrary, the poem which we have now under our consideration, hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject, and yet is filled with such a multitude of astonishing incidents...