Select British Classics, Band 14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... 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 , while the offering of the sacrifice is ' performed in what we ...
... 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 , while the offering of the sacrifice is ' performed in what we ...
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... obliged to you for your ' speedy publication of my last in your's of the 18th instant , and am in no small hopes of being settled ' in the post of comptroller of the cries . Of all the ' objections I have hearkened after in public ...
... obliged to you for your ' speedy publication of my last in your's of the 18th instant , and am in no small hopes of being settled ' in the post of comptroller of the cries . Of all the ' objections I have hearkened after in public ...
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... obliged to have either wit or understanding ; and I insist ' upon it , that all who go there should see something which may improve them in a way of which they ' are capable . In short , Sir , I would have some- thing done as well as ...
... obliged to have either wit or understanding ; and I insist ' upon it , that all who go there should see something which may improve them in a way of which they ' are capable . In short , Sir , I would have some- thing done as well as ...
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... obliging pains , we are all equally set aside in the present opera . Our application ' therefore to you is only to insert this letter in your Ipapers , that the town may know we have all three joined together to make entertainments of ...
... obliging pains , we are all equally set aside in the present opera . Our application ' therefore to you is only to insert this letter in your Ipapers , that the town may know we have all three joined together to make entertainments of ...
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... oblige a distressed lover , if you will insert in your very next paper the following ' letter to my mistress . You must know , I am not a person apt to despair , but she has got an odd humour ' of stopping short unaccountably , and , as ...
... oblige a distressed lover , if you will insert in your very next paper the following ' letter to my mistress . You must know , I am not a person apt to despair , but she has got an odd humour ' of stopping short unaccountably , and , as ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance action Adam and Eve admired Æneid agreeable angels appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances creature critics desire discourse dress entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame father fault favour FEBRUARY 27 female fortune genius gentleman give grace greatest happiness head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady letter lived look lover MADAM mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pleased pleasure poet pray present proper Quintilian racters reader reason reflections reputation Satan sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thou thought tion told town turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 240 - 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.
Seite 335 - 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...
Seite 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Seite 240 - 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.
Seite 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Seite 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Seite 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Seite 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.