The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Haddon, 1819 |
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... telling my readers that it comes from the same hand with that of last Thursday . " SIR , **** ' I SEND you , according to my promise , some farther thoughts on the education of youth , in which I intended to discuss that famous question ...
... telling my readers that it comes from the same hand with that of last Thursday . " SIR , **** ' I SEND you , according to my promise , some farther thoughts on the education of youth , in which I intended to discuss that famous question ...
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... tell you has had a very happy influence over the adult part of our sex ; but as many of us are either too old to learn , or too obstinate in the pursuit of the vanities which have been bred up with us from our infancy , and all of us ...
... tell you has had a very happy influence over the adult part of our sex ; but as many of us are either too old to learn , or too obstinate in the pursuit of the vanities which have been bred up with us from our infancy , and all of us ...
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... - ful field for speculation , or whether they run more in my head than the men , I cannot tell ; but I shall set down the charge as it is laid against me in the following letter . 6 MR . SPECTATOR , ' I ALWAYS make one 44 SPECTATOR .
... - ful field for speculation , or whether they run more in my head than the men , I cannot tell ; but I shall set down the charge as it is laid against me in the following letter . 6 MR . SPECTATOR , ' I ALWAYS make one 44 SPECTATOR .
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... tell you , as a sample of it , that I shall very speedily appear at White's in a cherry - coloured hat , I took this hint from the ladies ' hoods , which I look upon as the boldest stroke that sex has struck for these hundred years last ...
... tell you , as a sample of it , that I shall very speedily appear at White's in a cherry - coloured hat , I took this hint from the ladies ' hoods , which I look upon as the boldest stroke that sex has struck for these hundred years last ...
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... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . ' This speech is , I think , the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem . The evil spirit after ...
... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . ' This speech is , I think , the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem . The evil spirit after ...
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acquainted action Adam Adam and Eve Æneid agreeable angels appear Aurengzebe bagnio beautiful behaviour behold character circumstances creature dæmon dancing death desire discourse earth endeavoured entertainment eyes fable father fortune genius gentleman give hand happy head hear heaven Homer honour humble servant Iliad imagination kind lady learning letter live look MADAM mankind manner MARCH 17 Margaret Clark master means Messiah Milton mind Mohocks moral nature never night obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Paradise Lost particular passage passion Paul Lorrain person pleased pleasure poem poet poetical present racter reader reason received Satan sentiments shew Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime take notice tell thee thing thou thought tion told town Turnus VIRG Virgil virtue wherein whole woman words yard land young
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Página 312 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 218 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Página 62 - To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom And from whom I was form'd, flesh of thy flesh, And without whom am to no end, my guide And head! what thou hast said is just and right. For we to him indeed all praises owe And daily thanks; I chiefly, who enjoy So far the happier lot, enjoying thee Preeminent by so much odds, while thou Like consort to thyself canst no where find.
Página 279 - With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ? Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
Página 276 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 88 - 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 350 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Página 63 - So spake our general mother, and, with eyes Of conjugal attraction unreproved And meek surrender, half embracing lean'd On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid...
Página 121 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power 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 89 - If none regard ; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom, to behold but thee, nature's desire, In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.