The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 37
... raise in you all the tenderness of compas- sion and humanity , and by degrees soften those very imperfections into beauties . Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries . A marriage of love is pleasant ; a marriage of ...
... raise in you all the tenderness of compas- sion and humanity , and by degrees soften those very imperfections into beauties . Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries . A marriage of love is pleasant ; a marriage of ...
Strana 40
... raise laughter for a quarter of a year together upon the works of a person who has published but a very few volumes . For which reason I am astonished , that those who have appeared against this paper have made so very little of it ...
... raise laughter for a quarter of a year together upon the works of a person who has published but a very few volumes . For which reason I am astonished , that those who have appeared against this paper have made so very little of it ...
Strana 67
... raise his poem , but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention . And in- deed , notwithstanding all the restraint he was under , he has filled his story with so many ...
... raise his poem , but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention . And in- deed , notwithstanding all the restraint he was under , he has filled his story with so many ...
Strana 95
... raises our pity , but not our terror , because we do not fear that it may be our own case , who do not resemble the ... raise our pity but our terror ; because we are afraid that the like misfortunes may happen to ourselves , who ...
... raises our pity , but not our terror , because we do not fear that it may be our own case , who do not resemble the ... raise our pity but our terror ; because we are afraid that the like misfortunes may happen to ourselves , who ...
Strana 97
... raise desire . With these preparatives the hags break their wards by little and little , until they are brought to lose all apprehensions of what shall befal them in the pos- session of younger men . It is a common postscript of an hag ...
... raise desire . With these preparatives the hags break their wards by little and little , until they are brought to lose all apprehensions of what shall befal them in the pos- session of younger men . It is a common postscript of an hag ...
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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...