The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... passions and tempers of mind which naturally dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind . All those who made their entrance into the world with the same advantages , and were once looked on as his ...
... passions and tempers of mind which naturally dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind . All those who made their entrance into the world with the same advantages , and were once looked on as his ...
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... fame in life and motion . For when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and lan- guishes . Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , 22 256 . SPECTATOR .
... fame in life and motion . For when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and lan- guishes . Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , 22 256 . SPECTATOR .
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... passion or sentiment to express , or else violins , voices , or any other organs of sound , afford an entertainment very little above the rattles of children . It was from this opinion of the matter , that when Mr. Clayton had finished ...
... passion or sentiment to express , or else violins , voices , or any other organs of sound , afford an entertainment very little above the rattles of children . It was from this opinion of the matter , that when Mr. Clayton had finished ...
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... passions for young men's doing foolishly , what it is folly to do at all . Dear Sir , this is my present state of mind ; I hate those I should laugh at , and envy those I contemn . The time of youth and vi- gorous manhood , passed the ...
... passions for young men's doing foolishly , what it is folly to do at all . Dear Sir , this is my present state of mind ; I hate those I should laugh at , and envy those I contemn . The time of youth and vi- gorous manhood , passed the ...
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... passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and transporting raptures upon , ' MADAM , Your most devoted humble servant . ' ' MR . SPECTATOR , HERE is a gentlewoman lodges in the same ...
... passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and transporting raptures upon , ' MADAM , Your most devoted humble servant . ' ' MR . SPECTATOR , HERE is a gentlewoman lodges in the same ...
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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.