The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... raised upon noble hints in scripture . -Thus with ten wounds The river - dragon tam'd , at length submits To let his sojourners depart , and oft Humbles his stubborn heart ; but still as ice More harden'd after thaw , till , in his rage ...
... raised upon noble hints in scripture . -Thus with ten wounds The river - dragon tam'd , at length submits To let his sojourners depart , and oft Humbles his stubborn heart ; but still as ice More harden'd after thaw , till , in his rage ...
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... raised to a greater hap- piness than that which they had forfeited ; in short , Satan is represented miserable in the height of his triumphs , and Adam triumphant in the height of misery . Milton's poem ends very nobly . The last ...
... raised to a greater hap- piness than that which they had forfeited ; in short , Satan is represented miserable in the height of his triumphs , and Adam triumphant in the height of misery . Milton's poem ends very nobly . The last ...
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... raised his own imaginations by the use which he has made of several poetical passages in scrip- ture . I might have inserted also several passages in Tasso , which our author has imitated ; but as I do not look upon Tasso to be a ...
... raised his own imaginations by the use which he has made of several poetical passages in scrip- ture . I might have inserted also several passages in Tasso , which our author has imitated ; but as I do not look upon Tasso to be a ...
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... raise a suspicion of himself in a man who passes upon the world for a fine thing , in order to alarm him , one might say , if Lord Foppington were not on the stage , ( Cibber acts the false pretensions to a genteel behaviour so very ...
... raise a suspicion of himself in a man who passes upon the world for a fine thing , in order to alarm him , one might say , if Lord Foppington were not on the stage , ( Cibber acts the false pretensions to a genteel behaviour so very ...
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... raise this enter- tainment to the greatest height . It would be a great improvement , as well as embellishment to ... raised in observing all the objects of affection and pas- sion they had before beheld . Such elegant en- tertainments ...
... raise this enter- tainment to the greatest height . It would be a great improvement , as well as embellishment to ... raised in observing all the objects of affection and pas- sion they had before beheld . Such elegant en- tertainments ...
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acquaintance action Addison Æneid æther affected agreeable Anne Boleyn appear arise atheists beautiful behaviour behold Cæsar Callisthenes Chap character charms cheerfulness colours consider conversation CORNELIUS NEPOS Cotton Library creature Cynthio dæmon dauphin of France delight discourse DRYDEN endeavour entertainment eyes faculty fancy fault Fidelio Flavia friendship gentleman give grace GRATIAN hand happy heart honour humble servant ideas Iliad imagination innocence JUNE Jupiter kind ladies letter live look lover mankind manner Menippus mind modesty narch nature never objects observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular passions Pentheus perfection person pleasing pleasure poem poet poetry prince proper racter raise reader reason received reflections Roger de Coverley scenes secret sight sion soul SPECTATOR spirits taste temper thing thought tion town turally VIII VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
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Seite 48 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Seite 188 - tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and quench my thirst. CREECB. Ouu sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses: it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Seite 9 - They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Seite 7 - Which he hath sent propitious some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay ; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou. Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence This further consolation yet secure I carry hence ; though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed, By me the promised Seed shall all restore.
Seite 189 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Seite 128 - Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did I at any time so...
Seite 129 - ... mine enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Seite 7 - Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning. High in front...
Seite 206 - Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible, Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush...
Seite 49 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.