The British Essayists, Volumen10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... short Face ...... 291. Criticism on Paradise Lost 292. On the Art of bestowing Favours -Letter of Pliny - Letter from ADDISON STEELE MOTTEUX ADDISON STEELE ADDISON a poor and proud Jezabel ...... UNKNOWN 293. Connection betwixt Prudence ...
... short Face ...... 291. Criticism on Paradise Lost 292. On the Art of bestowing Favours -Letter of Pliny - Letter from ADDISON STEELE MOTTEUX ADDISON STEELE ADDISON a poor and proud Jezabel ...... UNKNOWN 293. Connection betwixt Prudence ...
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... short - lived pas- sion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh disco- veries and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view . And even the ...
... short - lived pas- sion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh disco- veries and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view . And even the ...
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... short , sir , I would have something done , as well as said , on the stage . A man may have an active body , though he has not a quick conception ; for the imitation therefore of such as are , as I may so speak , corporeal wits , or ...
... short , sir , I would have something done , as well as said , on the stage . A man may have an active body , though he has not a quick conception ; for the imitation therefore of such as are , as I may so speak , corporeal wits , or ...
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... short in the poll of his neck . This in the person who believed he could do it with a good grace , and was refused the opportunity , is justly resented with a coldness the whole ensuing season . Your great beauties , peo- ple in much ...
... short in the poll of his neck . This in the person who believed he could do it with a good grace , and was refused the opportunity , is justly resented with a coldness the whole ensuing season . Your great beauties , peo- ple in much ...
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... short unaccountably , and as she herself told a confidant of hers , she has cold fits , These fits shall last her a month or six weeks toge- ther ; and as she falls into them without provocation , so it is to be hoped she will return ...
... short unaccountably , and as she herself told a confidant of hers , she has cold fits , These fits shall last her a month or six weeks toge- ther ; and as she falls into them without provocation , so it is to be hoped she will return ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 238 - 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.
Página 275 - 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.
Página 237 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Página 242 - 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...
Página 238 - 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!
Página 123 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Página 237 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Página 151 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Página 240 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 238 - 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...