The British Essayists, المجلد 17Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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الصفحة 33
... OVID . MET . XV . 106 . Th ' essay of bloody feasts on brutes began , And after forg'd the sword to murder man . DRYDEN . CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine , that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of ...
... OVID . MET . XV . 106 . Th ' essay of bloody feasts on brutes began , And after forg'd the sword to murder man . DRYDEN . CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine , that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of ...
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... Ovid has some very tender and pathetic lines ap- plicable to this occasion : • Quid meruistis , oves placidum pecus , inque tegendos Natum homines , pleno quæ fertis in ubere nectar ? Mollia quæ nobis vestras velumina lanas Præbetis ...
... Ovid has some very tender and pathetic lines ap- plicable to this occasion : • Quid meruistis , oves placidum pecus , inque tegendos Natum homines , pleno quæ fertis in ubere nectar ? Mollia quæ nobis vestras velumina lanas Præbetis ...
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... OVID . Met . i . 76 . Of thoughts enlarg'd , and more exalted mind . As I was the other day taking a solitary walk in St. Paul's , I indulged my thoughts in the pursuit of a certain analogy between that fabric and the Christian church ...
... OVID . Met . i . 76 . Of thoughts enlarg'd , and more exalted mind . As I was the other day taking a solitary walk in St. Paul's , I indulged my thoughts in the pursuit of a certain analogy between that fabric and the Christian church ...
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... OVID . Met . i . 488 . But so much youth , with so much beauty join'd , Oppose the state , which thy desires design'd . DRYDEN . To suffer scandal ( says somebody ) is the tax which every person of merit pays to the public ; and my lord ...
... OVID . Met . i . 488 . But so much youth , with so much beauty join'd , Oppose the state , which thy desires design'd . DRYDEN . To suffer scandal ( says somebody ) is the tax which every person of merit pays to the public ; and my lord ...
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... OVID . Met . iv . 71 . Here Pyramus , there gentle Thisbe , strove To catch each other's breath , the balmy breeze of love . My precautions are made up of all that I can hear and see , translate , borrow , paraphrase , or contract ...
... OVID . Met . iv . 71 . Here Pyramus , there gentle Thisbe , strove To catch each other's breath , the balmy breeze of love . My precautions are made up of all that I can hear and see , translate , borrow , paraphrase , or contract ...
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الصفحة 161 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield.
الصفحة 24 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 56 - So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies.
الصفحة 162 - He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, ha!" and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
الصفحة 172 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire...
الصفحة 170 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
الصفحة 116 - IT is no small pleasure to me, who am zealous in the interests of learning, to think I may have the honour of leading the town into a very new and uncommon road of criticism. As that kind of literature is at present carried on, it consists only in a knowledge of mechanic rules which contribute to the structure of different sorts of poetry; as the receipts of good housewives do to the making puddings of flour, oranges, plums, or any other ingredients.
الصفحة 171 - When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did he see it and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
الصفحة 170 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
الصفحة 310 - The friend, in the meanwhile, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant over cities or mountains, seas or deserts.