The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 28
עמוד 7
... Favours - Letter of Pliny - Letter from a poor and proud Jezabel .. 29. Connexion betwixt Prudence and good For- tune - Fable of a Drop in the Ocean 294. On want of Charity in the Wealthy - Cha- rity Schools ...... 295. Letter on Pin ...
... Favours - Letter of Pliny - Letter from a poor and proud Jezabel .. 29. Connexion betwixt Prudence and good For- tune - Fable of a Drop in the Ocean 294. On want of Charity in the Wealthy - Cha- rity Schools ...... 295. Letter on Pin ...
עמוד 33
... favour from the speculations on the mistakes which the town run into with regard to their pleasure of this kind ; and believing your method of judging is , that you consider music only valuable , as it is agreeable to , and heightens ...
... favour from the speculations on the mistakes which the town run into with regard to their pleasure of this kind ; and believing your method of judging is , that you consider music only valuable , as it is agreeable to , and heightens ...
עמוד 36
... favours of this kind . Of this sort may be a man who is in the fifth or sixth degree of favour with a minister . This good creature is resolved to shew the world , that great honours cannot at all change his man- ners ; he is the same ...
... favours of this kind . Of this sort may be a man who is in the fifth or sixth degree of favour with a minister . This good creature is resolved to shew the world , that great honours cannot at all change his man- ners ; he is the same ...
עמוד 42
... favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and transporting raptures upon , MADAM , Your most devoted humble servant . ' < MR . SPECTATOR , ' HERE is a gentlewoman lodges in ...
... favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and transporting raptures upon , MADAM , Your most devoted humble servant . ' < MR . SPECTATOR , ' HERE is a gentlewoman lodges in ...
עמוד 53
... favour is direction enough to the grateful youth who is to succeed him , without the admonition of his mentioning it . These gentlemen are hon- oured in all their neighbourhood , and the same effect which the court has on the manners of ...
... favour is direction enough to the grateful youth who is to succeed him , without the admonition of his mentioning it . These gentlemen are hon- oured in all their neighbourhood , and the same effect which the court has on the manners of ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
above-mentioned acquainted action Adam and Eve admirer Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances consider consul represented Cottius critics desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment Enville epic poem fable fame father faults favour fortune give greatest happy head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour husband Iliad innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady language late learning letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion person PETER MOTTEUX pin-money pleased pleasure poet pray present prince proper racters reader reason sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR spirit sublime Suetonius tell Thammuz thing thou thoughts tion told town ture turn utmost VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 246 - 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...
עמוד 246 - 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.
עמוד 248 - 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.
עמוד 251 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
עמוד 133 - For joy of offer'd peace: but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
עמוד 250 - 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.
עמוד 218 - Milton's sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime, that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished him with such glorious conceptions.
עמוד 284 - Man, about this time To be created like to us, though less In power and excellence, but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath, That shook Heaven's whole circumference, confirm'd.
עמוד 247 - His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the most exalted and most depraved nature. Such is that in which he takes possession of his place of torments : -Hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be chang"d by place or time. And afterwards : , Here at least We shall be free ! th...
עמוד 247 - 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...