The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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Side vii
... person were not the only pre - eminence you have above others , which is left , almost , unobserved by greater writers . Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in your story , to be made ...
... person were not the only pre - eminence you have above others , which is left , almost , unobserved by greater writers . Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in your story , to be made ...
Side viii
... person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality which is prepared for good princes , law - givers , and heroes , when he in his due time removes them from ...
... person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality which is prepared for good princes , law - givers , and heroes , when he in his due time removes them from ...
Side 12
... person , and qualified to manage a family with ad- mirable prudence ; she dies to see what demure and serious airs wedlock has given you ; but she says , she shall never forgive your choice of so gallant a man as Bellamour to transform ...
... person , and qualified to manage a family with ad- mirable prudence ; she dies to see what demure and serious airs wedlock has given you ; but she says , she shall never forgive your choice of so gallant a man as Bellamour to transform ...
Side 16
... person from being mean and deficient in his qualifications , than of making any single one eminent or extraordinary . And among those who are the most richly endowed by nature , and accomplished by their own industry , how few are there ...
... person from being mean and deficient in his qualifications , than of making any single one eminent or extraordinary . And among those who are the most richly endowed by nature , and accomplished by their own industry , how few are there ...
Side 17
... person , than as a tribute paid to his merit . Others who are free from this natural per- verseness of temper , grow wary in their praises of one who sets too great a value on them , lest they should raise him too high in his own ...
... person , than as a tribute paid to his merit . Others who are free from this natural per- verseness of temper , grow wary in their praises of one who sets too great a value on them , lest they should raise him too high in his own ...
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Side 360 - 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...
Side 8 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Side 364 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Side 364 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Side 255 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 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.
Side 164 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
Side 255 - 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.
Side 293 - There went a fame in heaven, that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven.
Side 133 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Side 291 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.