The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... whether in some cases a cudgel may not be allowed as a good figure of speech , and whether it may not be lawfully used by a female orator . Your humble servant , BARBARA CRABTREE . MR . SPECTATOR , You • THOUGH I am a 252 . SPECTATOR .
... whether in some cases a cudgel may not be allowed as a good figure of speech , and whether it may not be lawfully used by a female orator . Your humble servant , BARBARA CRABTREE . MR . SPECTATOR , You • THOUGH I am a 252 . SPECTATOR .
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dominion , over it , who thus subjects himself to the good or ill speeches of others , and puts it in the power of every malicious tongue to throw him into a fit of melancholy , and destroy his natural rest and repose of mind ...
dominion , over it , who thus subjects himself to the good or ill speeches of others , and puts it in the power of every malicious tongue to throw him into a fit of melancholy , and destroy his natural rest and repose of mind ...
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... courage , differ from one another as to the particular kinds of courage in which they excel . In short , there is scarce a speech or action in the Iliad , which the reader may not ascribe to the person who speaks 102 273 . SPECTATOR .
... courage , differ from one another as to the particular kinds of courage in which they excel . In short , there is scarce a speech or action in the Iliad , which the reader may not ascribe to the person who speaks 102 273 . SPECTATOR .
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... speech and behaviour , as are suitable to a superior nature . The angels are indeed as much diversified in Milton , and distinguished by their proper parts , as the gods are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find no- thing ascribed ...
... speech and behaviour , as are suitable to a superior nature . The angels are indeed as much diversified in Milton , and distinguished by their proper parts , as the gods are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find no- thing ascribed ...
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... speeches , and admitted one of thy papers every day , save Sunday , into my house , for the edification of my daughter Tabitha , and to the end that Susanna the wife of my bosom might profit thereby . But alas ! my friend , I find that ...
... speeches , and admitted one of thy papers every day , save Sunday , into my house , for the edification of my daughter Tabitha , and to the end that Susanna the wife of my bosom might profit thereby . But alas ! my friend , I find that ...
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acquaintance action Adam and Eve ADDISON admired Æneid agreeable angels appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character circumstances critics desire discourse dress endeavour Enville epic poem fable fame father fault favour female fortune genius gentleman give grace greatest happy head heart heaven Homer honour hope humble servant Iliad innocent John Sharpe Julius Cæsar kind lady late letter lived look lover MADAM mankind manner marriage 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 prince proper Quintilian racter reader reason reputation ROSCOMMON Satan sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words young
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Seite 360 - 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 8 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 364 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Seite 364 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Seite 255 - 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.
Seite 164 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
Seite 255 - 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 293 - There went a fame in heaven, that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven.
Seite 133 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Seite 291 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.