Select British Classics, المجلد 14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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الصفحة 5
... mention the illustri- ous passages of your life , which are celebrated by the whole age , and have been the subject of the most sublime pens ; but if I could convey you to posterity in your private character , and describe the stature ...
... mention the illustri- ous passages of your life , which are celebrated by the whole age , and have been the subject of the most sublime pens ; but if I could convey you to posterity in your private character , and describe the stature ...
الصفحة 15
... mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the pre- 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 ...
... mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the pre- 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 ...
الصفحة 55
... mentioning even such authors as I could not name with honour . This I must confess to have been a piece of very great self - denial : for as the public relishes nothing better than the ridicule which turns upon a writer of any eminence ...
... mentioning even such authors as I could not name with honour . This I must confess to have been a piece of very great self - denial : for as the public relishes nothing better than the ridicule which turns upon a writer of any eminence ...
الصفحة 85
... mention of me ' in one of your papers , I believe I should not fail in ' my addresses . The scholars stand in rows , as they ' did to be sure in your time , at her pew - door ; and ' she has all the devotion paid to her by a crowd of ...
... mention of me ' in one of your papers , I believe I should not fail in ' my addresses . The scholars stand in rows , as they ' did to be sure in your time , at her pew - door ; and ' she has all the devotion paid to her by a crowd of ...
الصفحة 100
... mention me more . All our hopes are placed in having these circumstances fairly represented in the Spectator , which Betty says she dare not but bring up as soon as it is brought in ; and has promised when you have broke the ice to own ...
... mention me more . All our hopes are placed in having these circumstances fairly represented in the Spectator , which Betty says she dare not but bring up as soon as it is brought in ; and has promised when you have broke the ice to own ...
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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
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.