The Spectator, Band 5Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... common - place raillery of every thing that is sober , decent , and proper : matrimony and the clergy are the topics . of people of little wit , and no understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me ...
... common - place raillery of every thing that is sober , decent , and proper : matrimony and the clergy are the topics . of people of little wit , and no understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me ...
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... common principle of action working equally with all men . And such a prin- ciple is ambition , or a desire of fame , by which great endowments are not suffered to lie idle and useless to the public , and many vicious men 14 No. 255 ...
... common principle of action working equally with all men . And such a prin- ciple is ambition , or a desire of fame , by which great endowments are not suffered to lie idle and useless to the public , and many vicious men 14 No. 255 ...
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... common judgment and opinion of mankind ill - founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind , to be worked up to any noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be ...
... common judgment and opinion of mankind ill - founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind , to be worked up to any noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be ...
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... common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill - natured discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud themselves for the singularity of their judgment , which has ...
... common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill - natured discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud themselves for the singularity of their judgment , which has ...
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... common stamp , never meets with that reception and approbation , among its readers , as what is aimed at a person whose merit places him upon an eminence , and gives him a more conspicuous figure among men . Whether it be , that we ...
... common stamp , never meets with that reception and approbation , among its readers , as what is aimed at a person whose merit places him upon an eminence , and gives him a more conspicuous figure among men . Whether it be , that we ...
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Seite 250 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 250 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Seite 254 - 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 251 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel...
Seite 250 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Seite 251 - 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 185 - was the last person that lodged here ?' The king replied, ' His father.' ' And who is it,' says the dervise, ' that lodges here at present?' The king told him, that it was he himself. ' And, who,' says the dervise, ' will be here after you ?' The king answered, ' The young prince his son.' ' Ah, sir,' said the dervise, ' a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.
Seite 291 - On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th" infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Seite 251 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? here at least We shall be free ; th...
Seite 77 - Troy, and engaged all the gods in factions. ^Eneas's settlement in Italy produced the Caesars and gave birth to the Roman Empire. Milton's subject was still greater than either of the former; it does not determine the fate of single persons or nations, but of a whole species. The united powers of hell are joined together for the destruction of mankind, which they effected in part, and would have completed had not Omnipotence itself interposed.