The Spectator, Հատոր 5William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... proper : matrimony and the clergy are the topics . of people of little wit , and no understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me with . She is a discreet , ingenious , pleasant , pious woman : I wish ...
... proper : matrimony and the clergy are the topics . of people of little wit , and no understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me with . She is a discreet , ingenious , pleasant , pious woman : I wish ...
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... proper and genuine motives to these , and the like great actions , would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men ...
... proper and genuine motives to these , and the like great actions , would only influence virtuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men ...
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... proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest : but fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures , that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it , nor any organ in the body to relish it : an object of desire , placed ...
... proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest : but fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures , that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it , nor any organ in the body to relish it : an object of desire , placed ...
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... proper instruments , both of ac- quiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would nevertheless fail in the attainment of this last end , if they proceeded from a desire of the first . These three propositions are self ...
... proper instruments , both of ac- quiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would nevertheless fail in the attainment of this last end , if they proceeded from a desire of the first . These three propositions are self ...
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... proper object and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exer- cise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence . The pa- tience and fortitude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
... proper object and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exer- cise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence . The pa- tience and fortitude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
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Էջ 250 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Էջ 250 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Էջ 254 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Էջ 251 - 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...
Էջ 250 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Էջ 251 - 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 185 - was the last person that lodged here ?' The king replied, ' His father.' ' And who is it,' says the dervise, ' that lodges here at present?' The king told him, that it was he himself. ' And, who,' says the dervise, ' will be here after you ?' The king answered, ' The young prince his son.' ' Ah, sir,' said the dervise, ' a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.
Էջ 291 - On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th" infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Էջ 251 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? here at least We shall be free ; th...
Էջ 77 - Troy, and engaged all the gods in factions. ^Eneas's settlement in Italy produced the Caesars and gave birth to the Roman Empire. Milton's subject was still greater than either of the former; it does not determine the fate of single persons or nations, but of a whole species. The united powers of hell are joined together for the destruction of mankind, which they effected in part, and would have completed had not Omnipotence itself interposed.