The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment of reasonable creatures . As to the diversions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment of reasonable creatures . As to the diversions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
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... manner , that all Englishmen who have any skill in music may be furthered in it for their profit or diversion by what new things we shall produce ; never pretending to surpass others , or asserting that any thing which is VOL . X. D a ...
... manner , that all Englishmen who have any skill in music may be furthered in it for their profit or diversion by what new things we shall produce ; never pretending to surpass others , or asserting that any thing which is VOL . X. D a ...
第 27 頁
... manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once to shew he is full of business , and yet not so taken up as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not so ...
... manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once to shew he is full of business , and yet not so taken up as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not so ...
第 31 頁
... manners are as natural to them as his delights , method of think- ing , and mode of living , were formerly to him and his friends . But the mischief is , he looks upon the same kind of error which he himself was guilty of with an eye of ...
... manners are as natural to them as his delights , method of think- ing , and mode of living , were formerly to him and his friends . But the mischief is , he looks upon the same kind of error which he himself was guilty of with an eye of ...
第 32 頁
... to oblige me ; or I live in torment , and that to lay no manner of obligation on you ? While I indulge your insensibility I am doing nothing ; if you favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay 32 N ° 260 . SPECTATOR .
... to oblige me ; or I live in torment , and that to lay no manner of obligation on you ? While I indulge your insensibility I am doing nothing ; if you favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay 32 N ° 260 . SPECTATOR .
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第 236 頁 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
第 238 頁 - 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.
第 238 頁 - 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...
第 242 頁 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
第 275 頁 - 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.
第 242 頁 - 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...
第 237 頁 - 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...
第 239 頁 - To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
第 237 頁 - 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.
第 242 頁 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, * Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...