The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and that , on the contrary , mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that ...
... greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and that , on the contrary , mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that ...
Strana 4
... greatest character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down , with a generous neglect , on the censure and ap plauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we find ...
... greatest character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down , with a generous neglect , on the censure and ap plauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we find ...
Strana 5
... greatest characters . In the next place , fame is easily lost , and as diffi- cult to be preserved as it was at first to be acquired . But this I shall make the subject of a following paper . C. N ° 256. MONDAY , DECEMBER 24 , 1711 ...
... greatest characters . In the next place , fame is easily lost , and as diffi- cult to be preserved as it was at first to be acquired . But this I shall make the subject of a following paper . C. N ° 256. MONDAY , DECEMBER 24 , 1711 ...
Strana 9
... greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that , however surprising and extraordinary they may be , they are no more than what are expected from him ; but on the contrary , if they fall any thing below the ...
... greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that , however surprising and extraordinary they may be , they are no more than what are expected from him ; but on the contrary , if they fall any thing below the ...
Strana 13
... greatest folly to seek the praise or approbation of any being , besides the Supreme , and that for these two reasons ; because no other being can make a right judgment of us , and esteem us according to our merits ; and because we can ...
... greatest folly to seek the praise or approbation of any being , besides the Supreme , and that for these two reasons ; because no other being can make a right judgment of us , and esteem us according to our merits ; and because we can ...
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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...