The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... hands with this remarkable expression , My lord , make him but what you are , and my nephew will be all that I wish to see him . ' Upon the accession of Queen Anne to the throne , he was made a knight of the garter , and captain ...
... hands with this remarkable expression , My lord , make him but what you are , and my nephew will be all that I wish to see him . ' Upon the accession of Queen Anne to the throne , he was made a knight of the garter , and captain ...
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... hand , " I do , " with a languishing air , to the man she is obliged by cruel parents to take for mercenary 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 ...
... hand , " I do , " with a languishing air , to the man she is obliged by cruel parents to take for mercenary 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 ...
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... hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to commend , the boast will pro- bably be censured , when the great action that occa- sioned it is forgotten . Besides , this very desire of fame is looked on as a meanness and ...
... hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to commend , the boast will pro- bably be censured , when the great action that occa- sioned it is forgotten . Besides , this very desire of fame is looked on as a meanness and ...
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... hand in their prayers . This humourist gives up all the compliments which peo- ple of his own condition could make to him , for the pleasure of helping the afflicted , supplying the needy , and befriending the neglected . This humourist ...
... hand in their prayers . This humourist gives up all the compliments which peo- ple of his own condition could make to him , for the pleasure of helping the afflicted , supplying the needy , and befriending the neglected . This humourist ...
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... peace , and he may hand her out of her box with safety . Will informs me likewise , that these hoods may be used as signals . Why else , says he , does Cor- nelia always put on a black hood when her husband 265 . 67 SPECTATOR .
... peace , and he may hand her out of her box with safety . Will informs me likewise , that these hoods may be used as signals . Why else , says he , does Cor- nelia always put on a black hood when her husband 265 . 67 SPECTATOR .
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.