The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
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... body to relish it : an object of desire , placed out of the possibility of fruition . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and uneasy under it ; and ...
... body to relish it : an object of desire , placed out of the possibility of fruition . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and uneasy under it ; and ...
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... bodies from too constant attention and labour : where therefore public diversions are tolerated , it behoves persons of distinction , with their pow- er and example , to preside over them in such a manner as to check any thing that ...
... bodies from too constant attention and labour : where therefore public diversions are tolerated , it behoves persons of distinction , with their pow- er and example , to preside over them in such a manner as to check any thing that ...
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... body , though he has not a quick conception ; for the imitation therefore of such as are , as I may so speak , corporeal wits , or nimble fellows , I would fain ask any of the present mismanagers , why should not rope - dan- cers ...
... body , though he has not a quick conception ; for the imitation therefore of such as are , as I may so speak , corporeal wits , or nimble fellows , I would fain ask any of the present mismanagers , why should not rope - dan- cers ...
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... body , and for want of judgment in time and place , would bow and smile in the face of a judge sitting in the court , would sit in an opposite gallery and smile in the minister's face as he came up into the pul- pit , and nod as if he ...
... body , and for want of judgment in time and place , would bow and smile in the face of a judge sitting in the court , would sit in an opposite gallery and smile in the minister's face as he came up into the pul- pit , and nod as if he ...
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... hunks worth money : no body comes to visit him , he re- ceives no letters , and tells his money morning and evening . He has from the public papers a know- ledge of what generally passes , shuns all discour- ses 60 No. 264 . SPECTATOR .
... hunks worth money : no body comes to visit him , he re- ceives no letters , and tells his money morning and evening . He has from the public papers a know- ledge of what generally passes , shuns all discour- ses 60 No. 264 . SPECTATOR .
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Página 246 - 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...
Página 246 - 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.
Página 248 - 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.
Página 251 - 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...
Página 133 - 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 250 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Página 218 - Milton's sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime, that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished him with such glorious conceptions.
Página 284 - Man, about this time To be created like to us, though less In power and excellence, but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath, That shook Heaven's whole circumference, confirm'd.
Página 247 - His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the most exalted and most depraved nature. Such is that in which he takes possession of his place of torments : -Hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be chang"d by place or time. And afterwards : , Here at least We shall be free ! th...
Página 247 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? here at least We shall be free ; th...