The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... honour to James Duke of York ; but being strongly inclined to a military life , he obtained , at the age of sixteen , an ensigncy in the guards , and in that quality served against the Moors at Tangier . In the war with the Dutch in ...
... honour to James Duke of York ; but being strongly inclined to a military life , he obtained , at the age of sixteen , an ensigncy in the guards , and in that quality served against the Moors at Tangier . In the war with the Dutch in ...
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... honoured , six different times , with the thanks of the house of commons , was created a duke , had a pension of five thousand pounds a year set- tled upon him out of the post - office revenue , and was pre- sented with the manor of ...
... honoured , six different times , with the thanks of the house of commons , was created a duke , had a pension of five thousand pounds a year set- tled upon him out of the post - office revenue , and was pre- sented with the manor of ...
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... honour to print this among your speculations , I shall in my next make you a present of secret history , by translating all the looks of the next assembly of ladies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some fu- ture paper . ' I am , SIR ...
... honour to print this among your speculations , I shall in my next make you a present of secret history , by translating all the looks of the next assembly of ladies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some fu- ture paper . ' I am , SIR ...
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... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover farther ends of Providence in im- planting this passion in mankind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and ...
... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover farther ends of Providence in im- planting this passion in mankind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and ...
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... honour to be well known and received among the nobility and gentry , were zealously in- clined to assist by their solicitations , in introducing so elegant an entertainment as the Italian music grafted upon English poetry . For this end ...
... honour to be well known and received among the nobility and gentry , were zealously in- clined to assist by their solicitations , in introducing so elegant an entertainment as the Italian music grafted upon English poetry . For this end ...
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Էջ 360 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...
Էջ 8 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Էջ 364 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Էջ 364 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Էջ 255 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 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 164 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
Էջ 255 - 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 293 - There went a fame in 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.
Էջ 133 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Էջ 291 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.