Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 - English essays |
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... passed in it formerly , those which were at first pleasant to behold appear more so upon reflection , and that the memory heightens the delightfulness of the original . A Cartesian would account for both these instances in the following ...
... passed in it formerly , those which were at first pleasant to behold appear more so upon reflection , and that the memory heightens the delightfulness of the original . A Cartesian would account for both these instances in the following ...
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... passed not long ago , which made me rejoice when the hour was come for the sun to set , that I might enjoy the freshness of the evening in my garden , which then affords me the pleasantest hours I pass in the whole four - and - twenty ...
... passed not long ago , which made me rejoice when the hour was come for the sun to set , that I might enjoy the freshness of the evening in my garden , which then affords me the pleasantest hours I pass in the whole four - and - twenty ...
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... passed by , methought I heard a confused noise of soft complaints , gentle ecstacies , and tender sighs of lovers ; vows of constancy , and as many complainings of perfidiousness ; all which the winds wafted away as soon as they had ...
... passed by , methought I heard a confused noise of soft complaints , gentle ecstacies , and tender sighs of lovers ; vows of constancy , and as many complainings of perfidiousness ; all which the winds wafted away as soon as they had ...
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... passed over a bundle of honey- suckles and tuberoses which he held in his hand . Pan and Ceres followed them with four reapers , who danced a morrice to the sound of oaten pipes and cymbals . Then came the attendant Months . June ...
... passed over a bundle of honey- suckles and tuberoses which he held in his hand . Pan and Ceres followed them with four reapers , who danced a morrice to the sound of oaten pipes and cymbals . Then came the attendant Months . June ...
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... passed from me I was amazed at a shape so little correspondent to his face ; his head was bald , and all the rest of his limbs appeared old and deformed . On the hinder part of his mantle was represented Murder with dishevelled hair and ...
... passed from me I was amazed at a shape so little correspondent to his face ; his head was bald , and all the rest of his limbs appeared old and deformed . On the hinder part of his mantle was represented Murder with dishevelled hair and ...
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Page 282 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 273 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Page 272 - Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? ' thus leave " Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, " Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend " Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day " That must be mortal to us both.
Page 203 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose. He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Page 282 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 199 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift 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...
Page 99 - ... which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church : for he was heard to say some time ago, that if he lived two years longer, Coverley church should have a steeple to it.
Page 114 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those Who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Page 210 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 281 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...