The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Haddon, 1819 |
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... turn to ridicule a man whose charac- ter seems so improper a subject for it , or that we are pleased , by some implicit kind of revenge , to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank ...
... turn to ridicule a man whose charac- ter seems so improper a subject for it , or that we are pleased , by some implicit kind of revenge , to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank ...
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... turn all his de- sire of fame this way ; and that he may propose to himself a fame worthy of his ambition , let him con- sider , that if he employs his abilities to the best advantage , the time will come when the Supreme Governor of ...
... turn all his de- sire of fame this way ; and that he may propose to himself a fame worthy of his ambition , let him con- sider , that if he employs his abilities to the best advantage , the time will come when the Supreme Governor of ...
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... turn most upon the person . They have both their reasons . The first would procure many conve- niences and pleasures of life to the party whose in- terests they espouse ; and at the same time may hope that the wealth of their friends ...
... turn most upon the person . They have both their reasons . The first would procure many conve- niences and pleasures of life to the party whose in- terests they espouse ; and at the same time may hope that the wealth of their friends ...
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... turns upon a writer of any eminence , so there is nothing which a man that has but a very ordinary talent in ridicule may execute with greater ease . One might raise laughter for a quarter of a year together upon the works of a person ...
... turns upon a writer of any eminence , so there is nothing which a man that has but a very ordinary talent in ridicule may execute with greater ease . One might raise laughter for a quarter of a year together upon the works of a person ...
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... turn as pale as ashes upon seeing my younger boy sliding upon the ice . These slight in- timations will give you to understand , that there are numberless little crimes which children take no no- tice of while they are doing , which ...
... turn as pale as ashes upon seeing my younger boy sliding upon the ice . These slight in- timations will give you to understand , that there are numberless little crimes which children take no no- tice of while they are doing , which ...
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acquaintance action admirer Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty Beelzebub behaviour character circumstances Cottius creature critic desire dress DRYDEN endeavour Enville epic poem eyes fable fallen angels fame fault favour FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 18 female fortune genius give greatest happy head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad infernal innocent JANUARY 24 Julius Cæsar kind lady language late learning letter look lover mankind manner marriage Milton mind mistress Moloch nature never obliged observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion person PETER MOTTEUX petitioners pin-money pleased pleasure poem poet pray present prince proper racter reader reason reflection ROSCOMMON sentiments shew sion speak SPECTATOR spirit tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
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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...
Página 242 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Página 241 - 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 148 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 276 - Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Página 236 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 279 - With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array; So wide they stood, and like a furnace mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame.
Página 169 - Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Página 240 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Página 35 - True love has ten thousand griefs, impatiences, and resentments, that render a man unamiable in the eyes of the person whose affection he solicits ; besides that it sinks his figure, gives him fears, apprehensions, and poorness of spirit, and often makes him appear ridiculous where he has a mind to recommend himself. Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy, that are preceded by a long courtship.