The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... pass away life as they ought , all parts of it are equally pleasant ; only the memory of good and worthy actions is a feast which must give a quicker relish to the soul than ever it could possibly taste in the highest enjoyments or ...
... pass away life as they ought , all parts of it are equally pleasant ; only the memory of good and worthy actions is a feast which must give a quicker relish to the soul than ever it could possibly taste in the highest enjoyments or ...
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... life is generally that which passes in courtship , provided his passion be sincere , and the party beloved kind with discre- tion . Love , desire , hope , all the 30 N ° 261 . SPECTATOR . N° 261. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1711. ...
... life is generally that which passes in courtship , provided his passion be sincere , and the party beloved kind with discre- tion . Love , desire , hope , all the 30 N ° 261 . SPECTATOR . N° 261. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1711. ...
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... passes on this state of life . It is , indeed , only happy in those who can look down with scorn and neglect on the im- pieties of the times , and tread the paths of life toge- ther in a constant uniform course of virtue . C. N⚫ 262 ...
... passes on this state of life . It is , indeed , only happy in those who can look down with scorn and neglect on the im- pieties of the times , and tread the paths of life toge- ther in a constant uniform course of virtue . C. N⚫ 262 ...
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... pass unobserved by common eyes . I thank Heaven I have no outrageous offence against my own excellent parents to answer for ; but when I am now and then alone , and look back upon my past life , from my earliest infancy to this time ...
... pass unobserved by common eyes . I thank Heaven I have no outrageous offence against my own excellent parents to answer for ; but when I am now and then alone , and look back upon my past life , from my earliest infancy to this time ...
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... pass your time better than insinuating the delights which those relations well regarded bestow upon each other . Ordinary passages are no longer such , but mutual love gives an importance to the most indifferent things , and a merit to ...
... pass your time better than insinuating the delights which those relations well regarded bestow upon each other . Ordinary passages are no longer such , but mutual love gives an importance to the most indifferent things , and a merit to ...
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Página 232 - 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 234 - 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 343 - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he, in delight Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Página 234 - 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 234 - 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 165 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Página 344 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Página 271 - To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new worlds...
Página 342 - So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 60 - ¿Eneid also labours in this particular, and has episodes which may be looked upon as excrescences rather than as parts of the action. On the contrary, the poem which we have now under our consideration, hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject, and yet is filled with such a multitude of astonishing incidents...