The Spectator, Band 5Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment of reasonable crea- tures . As to the diversions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment of reasonable crea- tures . As to the diversions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
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... manner , that all Englishmen who have any skill in music may be furthered in it for their profit or diversion by what new things we shall produce ; never pretending to surpass others , or asserting that any thing which is a science , is ...
... manner , that all Englishmen who have any skill in music may be furthered in it for their profit or diversion by what new things we shall produce ; never pretending to surpass others , or asserting that any thing which is a science , is ...
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... manner of obligation on you ? While I indulge your insensibility I am doing nothing ; if you favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and transporting raptures upon , MADAM ...
... manner of obligation on you ? While I indulge your insensibility I am doing nothing ; if you favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and transporting raptures upon , MADAM ...
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... manner , that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private persons . For this reason , when I draw any faulty character , I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it , and take care to dash it ...
... manner , that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private persons . For this reason , when I draw any faulty character , I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it , and take care to dash it ...
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... manner of life , renewed . It would be extremely beneficial to society , if you would frequently resume subjects which serve to bind these sort of relations faster , and endear the ties of blood with those of good - will , protection ...
... manner of life , renewed . It would be extremely beneficial to society , if you would frequently resume subjects which serve to bind these sort of relations faster , and endear the ties of blood with those of good - will , protection ...
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above-mentioned acquainted action admirer Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances colours Cottius critics desire discourse dress endeavour Eneid entertainment Enville epic poem epic poetry eyes fable fame father faults favour fortune give greatest Greek happy head heart heaven holy orders Homer honour hoods hope humble servant humour Iliad infernal innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady late letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pin-money pleased pleasure poet portunity pray present proper racters reader reason sentiments shew Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR spirit tell Thammuz thing THOMAS CLAYTON thought tion told town ture turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
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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.