The Spectator, Volume 4George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... honour to print this among your speculations , I shall in my next make you a present of secret history , by translating all the looks of the next assembly of ladies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some future paper . I am , SIR ...
... honour to print this among your speculations , I shall in my next make you a present of secret history , by translating all the looks of the next assembly of ladies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some future paper . I am , SIR ...
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... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover further ends of Providence in implant- ing this passion in mankind.2 It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and ...
... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover further ends of Providence in implant- ing this passion in mankind.2 It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and ...
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... honour to be well known and received among the nobility and gentry , were zealously inclined to assist , by their solicitations , in introducing so elegant an entertainment as the Italian music grafted upon English poetry . For this end ...
... honour to be well known and received among the nobility and gentry , were zealously inclined to assist , by their solicitations , in introducing so elegant an entertainment as the Italian music grafted upon English poetry . For this end ...
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... honours cannot at all change his manners , he is the same civil person he He will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once , to show he is full of business , and yet is not so taken up as to forget his old friend ...
... honours cannot at all change his manners , he is the same civil person he He will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once , to show he is full of business , and yet is not so taken up as to forget his old friend ...
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... honour you ; therefore pray do not tell me of waiting till decencies , till forms , till humours are consulted and gratified . If you have that happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that all ...
... honour you ; therefore pray do not tell me of waiting till decencies , till forms , till humours are consulted and gratified . If you have that happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that all ...
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Page 370 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 261 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 265 - 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 assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Page 266 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 263 - 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...
Page 374 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 267 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can...
Page 263 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames, Driven.
Page 143 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 9 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...