The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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Side 10
... virtue reverence attends , But sensual pleasure in our ruin ends . WHEN I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many young ...
... virtue reverence attends , But sensual pleasure in our ruin ends . WHEN I consider the false impressions which are received by the generality of the world , I am troubled at none more than a certain levity of thought , which many young ...
Side 16
... how few are there whose virtues are not obscured by the ignorance , prejudice , or envy of their beholders ! Some men cannot discern between a noble and a mean action . Others are apt to attribute them to some 16 255 . SPECTATOR .
... how few are there whose virtues are not obscured by the ignorance , prejudice , or envy of their beholders ! Some men cannot discern between a noble and a mean action . Others are apt to attribute them to some 16 255 . SPECTATOR .
Side 18
... virtue , without any re- gard to our good or ill opinions of him , to our re- proaches or commendations . As on the contrary it is usual for us , when we would take off from the fame and reputation of an action , to ascribe it to vain ...
... virtue , without any re- gard to our good or ill opinions of him , to our re- proaches or commendations . As on the contrary it is usual for us , when we would take off from the fame and reputation of an action , to ascribe it to vain ...
Side 25
... virtues . We may further observe , that such a man will be more grieved for the loss of fame , than he could have been pleased with the enjoyment of it . For though the presence of this imaginary good cannot make us happy , the absence ...
... virtues . We may further observe , that such a man will be more grieved for the loss of fame , than he could have been pleased with the enjoyment of it . For though the presence of this imaginary good cannot make us happy , the absence ...
Side 27
... virtues , which in their own nature are incapable of any outward representation ; many silent perfections in the soul of a good man , which are great ornaments to human nature , but not able to discover themselves to the knowledge of ...
... virtues , which in their own nature are incapable of any outward representation ; many silent perfections in the soul of a good man , which are great ornaments to human nature , but not able to discover themselves to the knowledge of ...
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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.