The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 52
... 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 company in town . He has carried his skill in imita ...
... 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 company in town . He has carried his skill in imita ...
Strana 57
... tell ; but I have often known him , as we have stood together behind the ladies , praise or dispraise the complexion of a face which he never saw , from observing the colour of her hood , and [ he ] has been very seldom out in these his ...
... tell ; but I have often known him , as we have stood together behind the ladies , praise or dispraise the complexion of a face which he never saw , from observing the colour of her hood , and [ he ] has been very seldom out in these his ...
Strana 72
... tell any thing in which I can obey their commands more agreeably , be pleased to inform me , and you will extremely oblige Your humble servant . ' MR . SPECTATOR , 6 Oxford , Dec. 29 . SINCE you appear inclined to be a friend to the ...
... tell any thing in which I can obey their commands more agreeably , be pleased to inform me , and you will extremely oblige Your humble servant . ' MR . SPECTATOR , 6 Oxford , Dec. 29 . SINCE you appear inclined to be a friend to the ...
Strana 75
... telling me that Will had been busy all the beginning of the winter in turning great quantities of them ; and that he made a present of one to every gentleman in the country who has good principles , and smokes . He added , that poor ...
... telling me that Will had been busy all the beginning of the winter in turning great quantities of them ; and that he made a present of one to every gentleman in the country who has good principles , and smokes . He added , that poor ...
Strana 76
... Tell me truly , ' says he , ' don't you think Sir Andrew had a hand in the pope's procession ? ' - But without giving me time to answer him , ' Well , well , ' says he , ' I know you are a wary man , and do not care to talk of public ...
... Tell me truly , ' says he , ' don't you think Sir Andrew had a hand in the pope's procession ? ' - But without giving me time to answer him , ' Well , well , ' says he , ' I know you are a wary man , and do not care to talk of public ...
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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...