The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Bind 6J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... happy expiration of your command , by which your glory is put out of the power of fortune : and when your person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality ...
... happy expiration of your command , by which your glory is put out of the power of fortune : and when your person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality ...
Side 31
... happy as not to know it already , that the great havoc which is made in the habitations of beauty and innocence , is committed by such as can only lay waste , and not enjoy the soil . When you observe the present state of vice and ...
... happy as not to know it already , that the great havoc which is made in the habitations of beauty and innocence , is committed by such as can only lay waste , and not enjoy the soil . When you observe the present state of vice and ...
Side 59
... happy cir- cumstances , which add a dignity to the familiar behaviour which distinguishes him whom we call an agreeable man . It is from this that every body loves and esteems Polycarpus . He is in the vigour of his age and the gayety ...
... happy cir- cumstances , which add a dignity to the familiar behaviour which distinguishes him whom we call an agreeable man . It is from this that every body loves and esteems Polycarpus . He is in the vigour of his age and the gayety ...
Side 60
... happy talent of pleasing either those above you or below you , seems to be wholly owing to the opinion they have of your sincerity . This quality is to attend the agreeable man in all the actions of his life ; and I think there need no ...
... happy talent of pleasing either those above you or below you , seems to be wholly owing to the opinion they have of your sincerity . This quality is to attend the agreeable man in all the actions of his life ; and I think there need no ...
Side 74
... happy issue . From what has been said , I think I may lay it down as a maxim , that every man of good com- mon sense may , if he pleases , in his particular station of life , most certainly be rich . The reason why we sometimes see that ...
... happy issue . From what has been said , I think I may lay it down as a maxim , that every man of good com- mon sense may , if he pleases , in his particular station of life , most certainly be rich . The reason why we sometimes see that ...
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action Addison admired Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character circumstances Cottius creature critics desire discourse dress DRYDEN Enville epic epic poem excellent fable fault favour female fortune genius gentleman give grace Grand Vizier greatest Greek happy head heart heaven holy orders Homer honour hope humble servant Iliad infernal innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady late letter Letter-Box lived look lover mankind manner marriage Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion persons pin-money pleased pleasure poem poet portunity pray present prince proper racter reader reason ROSCOMMON Satan sentiments Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
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Side 177 - 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.
Side 179 - To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
Side 217 - Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Side 215 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence...
Side 177 - 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 ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Side 248 - Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all height, bent down his eye, His own works, and their works, at once to view : About him all the sanctities of heaven Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received Beatitude past utterance...
Side 247 - The passions which they are designed to raise, are a divine love and religious fear. The particular beauty of the speeches in the third book consists in that shortness and perspicuity of style, in which the poet has couched the greatest mysteries of Christianity, and drawn together, in a regular scheme, the whole dispensation of Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination...
Side 248 - Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father shone Substantially express'd : and in his face Divine compassion visibly appear'd, Love without end, and without measure grace...
Side 38 - The skins of the forehead were extremely tough and thick, and, what Very much surprised us, had not in them any single blood-vessel that we were able to discover, either with or without our glasses; from whence we concluded, that the party when alive must have been entirely deprived of the faculty of blushing.
Side 55 - The loves of Dido and ^Eneas are only copies of what has passed between other persons. Adam and Eve, before the fall, are a different species from that of mankind, who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention, and the most exquisite judgment, could have filled their conversation and behaviour with so many circumstances during their state of innocence.