The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Հատորներ 27-34 |
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... things . But methinks the disposition of a mind which is truly great , is that which makes misfortunes and sorrows little when they befal ourselves , great and lamenta- ble when they befal other men . The most unpar- donable malefactor ...
... things . But methinks the disposition of a mind which is truly great , is that which makes misfortunes and sorrows little when they befal ourselves , great and lamenta- ble when they befal other men . The most unpar- donable malefactor ...
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... things terrible ; they raise a new creation of monsters , dragons , and giants ; where the danger ends , the hero ceases : when he has won an empire , or gained his mistress , the rest of his story is not worth relating . My friend ...
... things terrible ; they raise a new creation of monsters , dragons , and giants ; where the danger ends , the hero ceases : when he has won an empire , or gained his mistress , the rest of his story is not worth relating . My friend ...
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... thing as becomes their character , and particularly performing the public service with a due zeal and devotion ; I am the more encouraged to lay before them , by your means , several expres- sions used by some of them in their prayers ...
... thing as becomes their character , and particularly performing the public service with a due zeal and devotion ; I am the more encouraged to lay before them , by your means , several expres- sions used by some of them in their prayers ...
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... things which we are required to pray for ; they would therefore have much more reason to fear his anger if they did not make such petitions to him . There is another pretty fancy . When a young man has a mind to let us know who gave him ...
... things which we are required to pray for ; they would therefore have much more reason to fear his anger if they did not make such petitions to him . There is another pretty fancy . When a young man has a mind to let us know who gave him ...
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... thing necessary ; but that unless it be a conversation with such as are in some measure their equals in parts and years , there can be no room for emulation , contention , and several of the most lively passions of the mind ; which ...
... thing necessary ; but that unless it be a conversation with such as are in some measure their equals in parts and years , there can be no room for emulation , contention , and several of the most lively passions of the mind ; which ...
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Էջ 58 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Էջ 88 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Էջ 61 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Էջ 312 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Էջ 87 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Էջ 260 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Էջ 279 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Էջ 188 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Էջ 189 - Under his forming hands a creature grew, Manlike, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd, And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Էջ 81 - What thou see'st, What there thou see'st, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes...