The British Essayists;: GuardianJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... Majesty's Principal Secretary of State . Some singular cir- cumstances attended this publication , which are thus related by POPE in a letter to ATTERBURY : " ADDISON'S works came to my hands yesterday . I cannot but think it a very odd ...
... Majesty's Principal Secretary of State . Some singular cir- cumstances attended this publication , which are thus related by POPE in a letter to ATTERBURY : " ADDISON'S works came to my hands yesterday . I cannot but think it a very odd ...
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... majesty and state he assumed after victory , and a noblenan of a different character applauded for his condescension to inferiors . This would have seemed very strange to me , but that I happened to know the authors . He who made the ...
... majesty and state he assumed after victory , and a noblenan of a different character applauded for his condescension to inferiors . This would have seemed very strange to me , but that I happened to know the authors . He who made the ...
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... majesty and autho- rity to the noblest discourses of the pulpit : in like manner an imitation of the air of Homer and Virgil raises the dignity of modern poetry , and makes it appear stately and venerable . The last observation I shall ...
... majesty and autho- rity to the noblest discourses of the pulpit : in like manner an imitation of the air of Homer and Virgil raises the dignity of modern poetry , and makes it appear stately and venerable . The last observation I shall ...
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... majesty and glory . ' How will the man who shall die by the sword of pride and wrath , and in contention with his brother , appear before him , at whose presence nature shall be in an agony , and the great and glorious bodies of light ...
... majesty and glory . ' How will the man who shall die by the sword of pride and wrath , and in contention with his brother , appear before him , at whose presence nature shall be in an agony , and the great and glorious bodies of light ...
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... majesty of God , and the solemn judgment of the whole world ? The description which Virgil makes of the Elysian Fields , and the Infernal Regions , how in- finitely do they fall short of the majesty of the holy scripture , and the ...
... majesty of God , and the solemn judgment of the whole world ? The description which Virgil makes of the Elysian Fields , and the Infernal Regions , how in- finitely do they fall short of the majesty of the holy scripture , and the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ADDISON agreeable Aguire appear archbishop of Cambray beauty Bettenham called CATO'S LETTERS character Charwell circumstances conversation Corydon countenance Daubigné daughter delight desire discourse dress easy eclogues endeavour esteem eyes father favour fortune free-thinker gentleman give GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humble servant humour innocence Ironside kind king lady Lizard laugh learned letter live look Lord lover madam Maintenon majesty mankind manner March 13 merit mind nature never obliged observed occasion Othello paper particular passion pastoral person pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry POPE published racter reader reason religion RICHARD STEELE RICHARD TICKELL Scaron sense shepherds shew sions Sir Harry soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE STEELE'S TATLER Theocritus ther thing THOMAS TICKELL thought TICKELL tion town VIRG Virgil virtue WHIG whole woman words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 274 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 173 - Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song : Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.
Seite 274 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Seite 172 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 226 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Seite 262 - Fair weather is the joy of my soul ; about noon I behold a blue sky with rapture, and receive great consolation from the rosy dashes of light which adorn the clouds of the morning and evening. When I am lost among green trees, I do not envy a great man with a great crowd at his levee. And I often lay aside thoughts of going to an opera that I...
Seite 75 - Thus one may have an air, which proceeds from a just sufficiency and knowledge of the matter before him, which may naturally produce some motion of his head and body, which might become the bench better than the bar.
Seite 18 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.
Seite 293 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Seite 237 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...