The Spectator, Volume 5Little, Brown and Company, 1856 |
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acquainted action Adam Adam and Eve Æneas Æneid agreeable angels appear Aurengzebe bagnio beautiful behaviour behold character circumstances consider creature dancing death described desire discourse earth endeavoured entertainment epilogue eyes fable father fortune genius gentleman give grace hand happy head hear heart heaven Homer honour humble servant Iliad imagination innocence kind lady learning letter live look madam mankind manner MARCH 17 Margaret Clark Milton mind Mohocks nature never night obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Paradise Lost particular passage passion Paul Lorrain person pleased pleasure poem poet prince racters reader reason received Satan sentiments Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime take notice tell thee thing thou thought tion told town Turnus VIRG Virgil virtue wherein whole woman writ yard land young
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Page 206 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know • Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best...
Page 100 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 331 - 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 298 - On this mount He appeared ; under this tree Stood visible ; among these pines His voice I heard : here with Him at this fountain talk'd...
Page 263 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 172 - They viewed the vast, immeasurable abyss, Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, Up from the bottom turn'd by furious winds And surging waves, as mountains, to assault Heav'n's height, and with the centre mix the pole. Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then th...
Page 391 - We were now arrived at Spring Garden, which is exquisitely pleasant at this time of the year. When I considered the fragrancy of the walks and bowers, with the choirs of birds that sung upon the trees, and the loose tribe of people that walked under their shades, I could not but look upon the place as a kind of Mahometan paradise.
Page 297 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death! 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 69 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...
Page 329 - Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on— In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.