The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... pleased to give them a better dress : and let them pass abroad ; and you will oblige • Your admirer , ' A. B. ' MR . SPECTATOR , ' As I was this day walking in the street , there happened to pass by on the other side of the way a beauty ...
... pleased to give them a better dress : and let them pass abroad ; and you will oblige • Your admirer , ' A. B. ' MR . SPECTATOR , ' As I was this day walking in the street , there happened to pass by on the other side of the way a beauty ...
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... pleased to inform me , and you will extremely oblige ' Your humble servant . ' MISTER SPICTATUR , 6 Oxford , Dec. 29 . ' SINCE you appear inclined to be a friend to the distressed , I beg you would assist me in an affair under which I ...
... pleased to inform me , and you will extremely oblige ' Your humble servant . ' MISTER SPICTATUR , 6 Oxford , Dec. 29 . ' SINCE you appear inclined to be a friend to the distressed , I beg you would assist me in an affair under which I ...
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... pleased with the curiosity of the old knight , though I did not much wonder at it , having heard him say more than once in private discourse , that he looked upon Prince Eugenio ( for so the knight always calls him ) to be a greater man ...
... pleased with the curiosity of the old knight , though I did not much wonder at it , having heard him say more than once in private discourse , that he looked upon Prince Eugenio ( for so the knight always calls him ) to be a greater man ...
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... pleased to see my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks , and smutting one another . Our friend Will Wimble is as merry as any of them , and shews a thousand roguish tricks upon these occasions . I was very ...
... pleased to see my tenants pass away a whole evening in playing their innocent tricks , and smutting one another . Our friend Will Wimble is as merry as any of them , and shews a thousand roguish tricks upon these occasions . I was very ...
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... pleased with action as in that place ; for most men follow natnre no longer than while they are in their night - gown , and all the busy part of the day are in characters which they neither become , nor act in with pleasure to ...
... pleased with action as in that place ; for most men follow natnre no longer than while they are in their night - gown , and all the busy part of the day are in characters which they neither become , nor act in with pleasure 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...