The British Essayists, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 - English essays |
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... obliged to you for your speedy publication of my last in yours of the 18th instant , and am in no small hopes of being settled in the post of Comptroller of the Cries . Of all the objections I have hearkened after in public coffee ...
... obliged to you for your speedy publication of my last in yours of the 18th instant , and am in no small hopes of being settled in the post of Comptroller of the Cries . Of all the objections I have hearkened after in public coffee ...
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Alexander Chalmers. ' Every man that goes to a play is not obliged to have either wit or understanding ; and I insist upon it , that all who go there should see something which may improve them in a way of which they are ca- pable . In ...
Alexander Chalmers. ' Every man that goes to a play is not obliged to have either wit or understanding ; and I insist upon it , that all who go there should see something which may improve them in a way of which they are ca- pable . In ...
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... advantage so great a novelty would allow . It is not proper to trouble you with particulars of the just complaints we all of us have to make ; but so it is , that without regard to our obliging 24 N. 258 . SPECTATOR .
... advantage so great a novelty would allow . It is not proper to trouble you with particulars of the just complaints we all of us have to make ; but so it is , that without regard to our obliging 24 N. 258 . SPECTATOR .
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Alexander Chalmers. so it is , that without regard to our obliging pains , we are all equally set aside in the present opera . Our application therefore to you is only to insert this letter in your paper , that the town may know we have ...
Alexander Chalmers. so it is , that without regard to our obliging pains , we are all equally set aside in the present opera . Our application therefore to you is only to insert this letter in your paper , that the town may know we have ...
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... oblige a distressed lover , you will insert in your very next paper , the fol- lowing letter to my mistress . You must know , I am not a person apt to despair , but she has got an odd humour of stopping short unaccountably , and as she ...
... oblige a distressed lover , you will insert in your very next paper , the fol- lowing letter to my mistress . You must know , I am not a person apt to despair , but she has got an odd humour of stopping short unaccountably , and as she ...
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Page 238 - 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.
Page 275 - 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. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption — thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
Page 237 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 242 - A shout, that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air...
Page 238 - 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!
Page 123 - 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 237 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Page 151 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Page 240 - 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 238 - 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...