The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... pleasure in our ruin ends . WHEN I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many young women of quality have entertained , to ...
... pleasure in our ruin ends . WHEN I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many young women of quality have entertained , to ...
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... pleasure and emotion . I am your friend , and wish you happiness ; but am sorry to see by the air of your letter , that there are a set of women who are got into the common - place raillery of every thing that is sober , decent , and ...
... pleasure and emotion . I am your friend , and wish you happiness ; but am sorry to see by the air of your letter , that there are a set of women who are got into the common - place raillery of every thing that is sober , decent , and ...
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... pleasure in crossing our in- clinations , and disappointing us in what our hearts are most set upon . When therefore they have disco- vered the passionate desire of fame in the ambitious man , ( as no temper of mind is more apt to shew ...
... pleasure in crossing our in- clinations , and disappointing us in what our hearts are most set upon . When therefore they have disco- vered the passionate desire of fame in the ambitious man , ( as no temper of mind is more apt to shew ...
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... pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted cha- racter . They publish their ill - natured discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud themselves for the singularity of ...
... pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted cha- racter . They publish their ill - natured discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud themselves for the singularity of ...
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... pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and uneasy under it ; and which does not so much satisfy the present thirst , as it ex- cites fresh desires , and sets the soul on new enter- prises . For how few ambitious ...
... pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and uneasy under it ; and which does not so much satisfy the present thirst , as it ex- cites fresh desires , and sets the soul on new enter- prises . For how few ambitious ...
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Página 360 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...
Página 8 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 364 - 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 ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Página 364 - 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 255 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 164 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
Página 255 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Página 293 - There went a fame in heaven, that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven.
Página 133 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Página 291 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.