Select British Classics, Band 14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... face . ' Had you ever been in love , you would have said ten ' thousand things , which it seems did not occur to " you do but reflect upon the nonsense it makes men ' talk , the flames which it is said to kindle , the trans- 6 port it ...
... face . ' Had you ever been in love , you would have said ten ' thousand things , which it seems did not occur to " you do but reflect upon the nonsense it makes men ' talk , the flames which it is said to kindle , the trans- 6 port it ...
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... faces , and the persuasion ' which even an insipid discourse carries with it ' when flowing from beautiful lips , to which it would ' be cruel to deny any thing ? It is certain too , that ' they are possessed of some springs of rhetoric ...
... faces , and the persuasion ' which even an insipid discourse carries with it ' when flowing from beautiful lips , to which it would ' be cruel to deny any thing ? It is certain too , that ' they are possessed of some springs of rhetoric ...
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... face to his works , that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known , an agreeable turn . It is impossible for us , who live in the latter ages of the world , to ...
... face to his works , that wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known , an agreeable turn . It is impossible for us , who live in the latter ages of the world , to ...
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... face of a judge sitting in the court , would sit in an opposite gallery and smile in the minister's face as he came up into the pulpit , and nod as if he alluded to some familiarities between them in another place . But now I happen to ...
... face of a judge sitting in the court , would sit in an opposite gallery and smile in the minister's face as he came up into the pulpit , and nod as if he alluded to some familiarities between them in another place . But now I happen to ...
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... face . The felicity is , when any one is so happy as to find out and follow what is the proper bent of his genius , and turn all his endeavours to exert himself according as that prompts him . In- stead of this , which is an innocent ...
... face . The felicity is , when any one is so happy as to find out and follow what is the proper bent of his genius , and turn all his endeavours to exert himself according as that prompts him . In- stead of this , which is an innocent ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.