The Tatler: Selected EssaysF. Warne, 1888 - 478 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 160 - in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shews. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally. And, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard
الصفحة 106 - true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In paradise, of all things common else. By thee adult'rous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range ; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of
الصفحة 160 - own pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills,
الصفحة 268 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather. He, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses ; from his lip Not words alone pleas'd her. 0 ! when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour join'd
الصفحة 267 - Entering on studious thoughts abstruse, which Eve Perceiving where she sat retir'd in sight, With lowliness majestic from her seat Rose, and went forth among her fruits and flowers. Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high. Such pleasures she reserv'd, Adam relating, she sole auditress ; Her husband the relater she
الصفحة 383 - distemper'd, discontented thoughts, Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires, Blown up with high conceits, ingend'ring pride, Him, thus intent, Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly ; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper, but returns Of force to his own likeness. Up he starts
الصفحة 82 - I own there are exceptions to this general observation, and that the Dean we heard the other day together is an orator.* He has so much regard to his congregation, that he commits to his memory what he has to say to them ; and has so soft and graceful a behaviour, that it must attract
الصفحة 466 - honour, and virtue, as the chief ornaments of life ; but I considered, that severity of manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that reason, and that only, chose to talk in a mask. I shall not carry my humility so far as to
الصفحة 3 - to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour.
الصفحة 107 - Here patriots live, who, for their country's good, In fighting fields were prodigal of blood ; Here poets worthy their inspiring god, And of unblemish'd life, make their abode : And searching wits, of more mechanic parts, Who grac'd their age with new-invented arts : Those who to worth their bounty did extend ; And those who knew that bounty to commend.