The SpectatorT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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Página 15
... poets tell us a Lydian king was for- merly possessed of ; and that she could convert what- ever she pleased into that precious metal . " After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man often meets with in a dream ...
... poets tell us a Lydian king was for- merly possessed of ; and that she could convert what- ever she pleased into that precious metal . " After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man often meets with in a dream ...
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... poets of different nations , and raised by two magicians of different sexes . Armida ( as we are told in the argument ) was an Ama- zonian enchantress , and poor Signior Cassani ( as we learn from the persons represented ) a Christian ...
... poets of different nations , and raised by two magicians of different sexes . Armida ( as we are told in the argument ) was an Ama- zonian enchantress , and poor Signior Cassani ( as we learn from the persons represented ) a Christian ...
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... poet himself , from whom the dreams of this opera are taken , I must entirely agree with Monsieur Boileau , that one verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . But to return to the sparrows ; there have been so many ...
... poet himself , from whom the dreams of this opera are taken , I must entirely agree with Monsieur Boileau , that one verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . But to return to the sparrows ; there have been so many ...
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... poet tells us , that , after having made a great slaughter of the enemy , she unfortunately cast her eye on a Trojan , who wore an embroidered tunic , a beautiful coat of mail , with a mantle of the finest purple . A golden bow , ' says ...
... poet tells us , that , after having made a great slaughter of the enemy , she unfortunately cast her eye on a Trojan , who wore an embroidered tunic , a beautiful coat of mail , with a mantle of the finest purple . A golden bow , ' says ...
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... poet his friend ever after . Cardinal Mazarine gave the same kind of treat- ment to the learned Quillet , who had reflected upon his eminence in a famous Latin poem . The cardinal sent for him , and , after some kind expostulations upon ...
... poet his friend ever after . Cardinal Mazarine gave the same kind of treat- ment to the learned Quillet , who had reflected upon his eminence in a famous Latin poem . The cardinal sent for him , and , after some kind expostulations upon ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 39 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Página 374 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Página 374 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth Up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Página 324 - ... that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. 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 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Página 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 373 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Página 334 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 257 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.