The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 68
Página
... acquainted with your ordinary life and deportment ! How pleasing would it be to hear that the same man who carried fire and sword into the countries of all that had opposed the cause of liberty , and struck a terror into the armies of ...
... acquainted with your ordinary life and deportment ! How pleasing would it be to hear that the same man who carried fire and sword into the countries of all that had opposed the cause of liberty , and struck a terror into the armies of ...
Página 4
... acquaintance . In a very little time I never came into a room but I could hear a whisper , Here comes the maid . ' A girl of humour would on some occasion say , ' Why , how do you know more than any of us ? ' An expression of that kind ...
... acquaintance . In a very little time I never came into a room but I could hear a whisper , Here comes the maid . ' A girl of humour would on some occasion say , ' Why , how do you know more than any of us ? ' An expression of that kind ...
Página 5
... acquaintance among them , which I always improved to the best advantage . In all this course of time , and some years following , I found a sober modest man was always loooked upon by both sexes as a precise unfash- ioned fellow of no ...
... acquaintance among them , which I always improved to the best advantage . In all this course of time , and some years following , I found a sober modest man was always loooked upon by both sexes as a precise unfash- ioned fellow of no ...
Página 14
... acquainted with Aristotle , Tully , or Virgil ; and there are as many who have capacities for understanding every word those great persons have writ , and yet were not born to have any relish of their writings . For want of this common ...
... acquainted with Aristotle , Tully , or Virgil ; and there are as many who have capacities for understanding every word those great persons have writ , and yet were not born to have any relish of their writings . For want of this common ...
Página 36
... acquainted with Constantia , who had not then passed her fifteenth . As he lived but a few miles distant from her ... acquaintance made them still discover new beauties in each other , and by degrees raised in them that mutual passion ...
... acquainted with Constantia , who had not then passed her fifteenth . As he lived but a few miles distant from her ... acquaintance made them still discover new beauties in each other , and by degrees raised in them that mutual passion ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ... Vista de fragmentos - 1854 |
The Spectator: With a Historical and Biographical Preface, Volúmenes3-4 Alexander Chalmers Sin vista previa disponible - 1870 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance actions ADDISON admired Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour Castilian character circumstances consider Constantia conversation creature desire discourse endeavour entertainment Enville fable fame father favour female fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head heart Homer honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour husband Hyæna Iliad imagination innocence kind lady letter live look lover mankind manner Mariamne marriage matter mentioned Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observe occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch poem poet pray present proper racter reader reason renegado Sappho sense shew Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR spirit STEELE tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole wife woman women words write young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 442 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Página 390 - 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...
Página 18 - standing in the midst of the tide.' 'The bridge thou seest,' said he, 'is Human Life; consider it attentively.' Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred.
Página 18 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, "Mirza," said he, "I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Página 444 - 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 19 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Página 446 - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he, in delight Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Página 346 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 443 - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn, Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar; Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.
Página 235 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.