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... reasons , but at the same time she cannot look as if she loved ; her eye is full of sorrow , and reluctance ' sits in a tear , while the offering of the sacrifice is ' performed in what we call the marriage ceremony . ' Do you never go ...
... reasons , but at the same time she cannot look as if she loved ; her eye is full of sorrow , and reluctance ' sits in a tear , while the offering of the sacrifice is ' performed in what we call the marriage ceremony . ' Do you never go ...
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... reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who write in a positive dogmatic way , without either lan- guage , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best of the Latin ...
... reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who write in a positive dogmatic way , without either lan- guage , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best of the Latin ...
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... reason may be , because any little slip is more conspicuous and ob- servable in his conduct than in another's , as it is not of a piece with the rest of his character ; or , because it is impossible for a man at the same time to be ...
... reason may be , because any little slip is more conspicuous and ob- servable in his conduct than in another's , as it is not of a piece with the rest of his character ; or , because it is impossible for a man at the same time to be ...
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... reasons why Providence may have implanted in our mind such a principle of action . I have in the next place shewn , from many consider- ations , first , that fame is a thing difficult to be ob- tained , and easily lost ; secondly , that ...
... reasons why Providence may have implanted in our mind such a principle of action . I have in the next place shewn , from many consider- ations , first , that fame is a thing difficult to be ob- tained , and easily lost ; secondly , that ...
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... reason I shall not enlarge upon them , but proceed to a point of the same nature , which may open to us a more ... reasons ; because no other being can make a right judgment of us , and esteem us according to our merits ; and because we ...
... reason I shall not enlarge upon them , but proceed to a point of the same nature , which may open to us a more ... reasons ; because no other being can make a right judgment of us , and esteem us according to our merits ; and because we ...
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.