The British Essayists, Հատոր 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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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 he ...
... 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 he ...
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... greatest character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down , with a generous neglect , on the censures and ap- plauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we ...
... greatest character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down , with a generous neglect , on the censures and ap- plauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we ...
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... 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. No 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. No 256. MONDAY , DECEMBER 24 , 1711 ...
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... greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that , however surprising and ex- traordinary they may be , they are no more than what are expected from him ; but on the contrary , if they fall any thing below ...
... greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that , however surprising and ex- traordinary they may be , they are no more than what are expected from him ; but on the contrary , if they fall any thing below ...
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... greatest congregations of the church of England about town . After the service was over , he declared he was very well satisfied with the little ceremony which was used towards God Almighty ; but at the same time he feared he should not ...
... greatest congregations of the church of England about town . After the service was over , he declared he was very well satisfied with the little ceremony which was used towards God Almighty ; but at the same time he feared he should not ...
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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...