The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... figure among men . Whether it be that we think it shews greater art to expose and turn to ridicule a man whose character seems so improper a subject for it , or that we are pleased by some implicit kind of revenge , to see him taken ...
... figure among men . Whether it be that we think it shews greater art to expose and turn to ridicule a man whose character seems so improper a subject for it , or that we are pleased by some implicit kind of revenge , to see him taken ...
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... figure , gives him fears , apprehensions , and poorness of spirit , and often makes him appear ridiculous where he has a mind to recommend himself . Those marriages generally abound most with love and con- stancy , that are preceded by ...
... figure , gives him fears , apprehensions , and poorness of spirit , and often makes him appear ridiculous where he has a mind to recommend himself . Those marriages generally abound most with love and con- stancy , that are preceded by ...
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... figure to the beautiful globular form which is natural to it . have for a great while expected what kind of ornament would be substituted in the place of those antiquated commodes . But our female projectors were all the last summer so ...
... figure to the beautiful globular form which is natural to it . have for a great while expected what kind of ornament would be substituted in the place of those antiquated commodes . But our female projectors were all the last summer so ...
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... figures for this kind of speech , that some of the greatest ancients have been guilty of it , and that Aristotle himself has given it a place in his rhetoric among the beauties of that art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it ...
... figures for this kind of speech , that some of the greatest ancients have been guilty of it , and that Aristotle himself has given it a place in his rhetoric among the beauties of that art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it ...
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... figure which he makes in the sixth book , where the battle of the angels is described , we find it every way answerable to the same furious enraged character . Where the might of Gabriel fought , And with fierce ensigns pierc'd the deep ...
... figure which he makes in the sixth book , where the battle of the angels is described , we find it every way answerable to the same furious enraged character . Where the might of Gabriel fought , And with fierce ensigns pierc'd the deep ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Adam Adam and Eve admired Æneas Æneid agreeable ancient angels appear Aristotle beautiful behold character chearfulness circumstances consider creation critics death delight described discourse discover divine dreams DRYDEN earth endeavoured Enville fable fallen angels fame fancy filled give glorious golden compasses hand happy head heart heaven Homer honour ideas Iliad imagination Jupiter kind king ladies light likewise live look mankind manner Milton mind Mohocks moral nature never night noble observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular passage passion perfection persons pleased pleasure poem poet poetry prince proper reader reason represented ROSCOMMON Satan says sentiments shew sight Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger soul Spectator speech spirit sublime take notice Tatler tells temper thee thing thou thought tion told verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 525 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 132 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Seite 175 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Seite 123 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Seite 96 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Seite 89 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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 100 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Seite 129 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Seite 135 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Seite 118 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd 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 pleased her.