Select British Classics, Volumen14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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Página 102
... mention the offspring of other deities , who have likewise a place in his poem , and the venerable Trojan prince , who was the father of so many kings and heroes . There is in these several characters of Homer , a certain dignity as ...
... mention the offspring of other deities , who have likewise a place in his poem , and the venerable Trojan prince , who was the father of so many kings and heroes . There is in these several characters of Homer , a certain dignity as ...
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... mention of your faults . Your papers which regard the fallen part of the fair - sex , are I think , written with an indelicacy ' which makes them unworthy to be inserted in the writings of a moralist , who knows the world . I ' cannot ...
... mention of your faults . Your papers which regard the fallen part of the fair - sex , are I think , written with an indelicacy ' which makes them unworthy to be inserted in the writings of a moralist , who knows the world . I ' cannot ...
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... mention of those ' vain coverings for the heads of our females , which ' thou lovest to liken unto tulips , and which are lately 6 sprung up among us ? Nay , why didst thou make ' mention of them in such a seeming , as if thou didst ...
... mention of those ' vain coverings for the heads of our females , which ' thou lovest to liken unto tulips , and which are lately 6 sprung up among us ? Nay , why didst thou make ' mention of them in such a seeming , as if thou didst ...
Página 136
... mention of appearance of his wants would make him , that I have often reflected upon him as a counterpart of Irus , whom I have formerly mentioned . This man , whom I have missed for some years in my walks , and have heard was some way ...
... mention of appearance of his wants would make him , that I have often reflected upon him as a counterpart of Irus , whom I have formerly mentioned . This man , whom I have missed for some years in my walks , and have heard was some way ...
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... mention this case of ladies before any other , be- cause it is the most irreparable for though youth is the time less capable of reflection , it is in that sex the only season in which they can advance their for- tunes . But if we turn ...
... mention this case of ladies before any other , be- cause it is the most irreparable for though youth is the time less capable of reflection , it is in that sex the only season in which they can advance their for- tunes . But if we turn ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance action Adam and Eve admired Æneid agreeable angels appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances creature critics desire discourse dress entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame father fault favour FEBRUARY 27 female fortune genius gentleman give grace greatest happiness head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady letter lived look lover MADAM mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pleased pleasure poet pray present proper Quintilian racters reader reason reflections reputation Satan sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thou thought tion told town turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words young
Pasajes populares
Página 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 240 - 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 335 - 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 243 - 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 240 - 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 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Página 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Página 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Página 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.