The British Essayists, Volumen11Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... nature make parts and industry superfluous , and cut short the way to riches . Nor is vanity a less motive than idleness to this kind of mercenary pursuit . A fop , who admires his person in a glass , soon enters into a resolution of ...
... nature make parts and industry superfluous , and cut short the way to riches . Nor is vanity a less motive than idleness to this kind of mercenary pursuit . A fop , who admires his person in a glass , soon enters into a resolution of ...
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... nature , that can so far forget how liable it is to ca- lamity , as to grow giddy with only the suspence of sorrow which is the portion of all men . He there- fore who turns his face from the unhappy man , who will not look again when ...
... nature , that can so far forget how liable it is to ca- lamity , as to grow giddy with only the suspence of sorrow which is the portion of all men . He there- fore who turns his face from the unhappy man , who will not look again when ...
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... nature and force of his genius . Milton seems to have known perfectly well wherein his strength lay , and has therefore chosen a subject entirely conform- able to those talents of which he was master . As his genius was wonderfully ...
... nature and force of his genius . Milton seems to have known perfectly well wherein his strength lay , and has therefore chosen a subject entirely conform- able to those talents of which he was master . As his genius was wonderfully ...
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... nature , nor so proper to fill the mind with sentiments of grandeur , as with thoughts of devotion . The passions which they are designed to raise , are a divine love and religious fear . The particular beauty of the speeches in the ...
... nature , nor so proper to fill the mind with sentiments of grandeur , as with thoughts of devotion . The passions which they are designed to raise , are a divine love and religious fear . The particular beauty of the speeches in the ...
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... natural and noble ; as his roam- ing upon the frontiers of the creation , between that mass of matter which was ... nature . Aristotle observes , that the fable of an epic poem should abound in circumstances that are both credible ...
... natural and noble ; as his roam- ing upon the frontiers of the creation , between that mass of matter which was ... nature . Aristotle observes , that the fable of an epic poem should abound in circumstances that are both credible ...
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Página 86 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 187 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Página 301 - The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 79 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself, With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine ; to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Página 275 - O flowers That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Página 59 - 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...
Página 331 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rising Sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Página 119 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 79 - Return, fair Eve ; Whom fliest thou ? whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life ; to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear. Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim, My other half.
Página 329 - Oh, spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing Spring ; See lofty Lebanon his head advance : See nodding forests on the mountains dance ; See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers : Prepare the way ! a God ! a God appears ! A God ! a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity.