The British Essayists, Հատոր 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... father , whom I mentioned in my first specula- tion , and whom I must always name with honour and gratitude , has very frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged partly by his advice , and ...
... father , whom I mentioned in my first specula- tion , and whom I must always name with honour and gratitude , has very frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged partly by his advice , and ...
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... father of a very towardly son , in whom I do not only see my life , but also my manner of life , renewed . It would be extremely beneficial to society , if you would frequently resume subjects which serve to bind these sort of relations ...
... father of a very towardly son , in whom I do not only see my life , but also my manner of life , renewed . It would be extremely beneficial to society , if you would frequently resume subjects which serve to bind these sort of relations ...
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... father , and I omitted for no other reason , but that I thought what he proposed the effect of humour and old age ... father ; and de- ference , amidst the impulse of gay desires , appears unreasonable to the son . There are so few who ...
... father , and I omitted for no other reason , but that I thought what he proposed the effect of humour and old age ... father ; and de- ference , amidst the impulse of gay desires , appears unreasonable to the son . There are so few who ...
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... father's fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends , an easy landlord to his tenants , and an ...
... father's fortune with diffidence , lest he should not enjoy or become it as well as his predecessor . Add to this , that the father knows he leaves a friend to the children of his friends , an easy landlord to his tenants , and an ...
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... should need no more to make men keep up this sort of relation with the ut- most sanctity , than to examine their own hearts . If every father remembered his own thoughts and incli- nations when No 263 . 45 SPECTATOR .
... should need no more to make men keep up this sort of relation with the ut- most sanctity , than to examine their own hearts . If every father remembered his own thoughts and incli- nations when No 263 . 45 SPECTATOR .
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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!
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...