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 62
עמוד 30
... 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 ...
עמוד 42
... 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 ...
עמוד 48
... 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 ...
עמוד 51
... 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 ...
עמוד 53
... manner that Ca- millus and his first - born dwell together . Camil- lus enjoys a pleasing and indolent old age , in which passion is subdued and reason exalted .. He waits the day of his dissolution with a resig- nation mixed with ...
... manner that Ca- millus and his first - born dwell together . Camil- lus enjoys a pleasing and indolent old age , in which passion is subdued and reason exalted .. He waits the day of his dissolution with a resig- nation mixed with ...
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...