The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... received always upon the foot of a jest . This made so strong an impression upon me , that I resolved to be as agreeable as the best of men who laughed at me ; but I observed it was nonsense for me to be impudent at first among those ...
... received always upon the foot of a jest . This made so strong an impression upon me , that I resolved to be as agreeable as the best of men who laughed at me ; but I observed it was nonsense for me to be impudent at first among those ...
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... received innumerable messages from that part of the fair sex whose lot in life is to be of any trade or public way of life . They are all , to a woman , urgent with me to lay before the world the unhappy circumstances they are under ...
... received innumerable messages from that part of the fair sex whose lot in life is to be of any trade or public way of life . They are all , to a woman , urgent with me to lay before the world the unhappy circumstances they are under ...
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... received from a pretty milliner in the city . " MR . SPECTATOR , " I HAVE read your account of beauties , and was not a little sur- prised to find no character of myself in it . I do assure you I have little else to do but to give ...
... received from a pretty milliner in the city . " MR . SPECTATOR , " I HAVE read your account of beauties , and was not a little sur- prised to find no character of myself in it . I do assure you I have little else to do but to give ...
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... received by them because it is the fashion , and opposi tion to each other brings them insensibly into an imitation of each other . What adds to him the greatest grace is , that the pleasant thief , as they call him , is the most ...
... received by them because it is the fashion , and opposi tion to each other brings them insensibly into an imitation of each other . What adds to him the greatest grace is , that the pleasant thief , as they call him , is the most ...
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... received like a victor that disdains his trophies , to be a victim to the present charmer . If you see a man more full of gesture than ordinary in a public assembly , if loud upon no occasion , if negligent of the company round him ...
... received like a victor that disdains his trophies , to be a victim to the present charmer . If you see a man more full of gesture than ordinary in a public assembly , if loud upon no occasion , if negligent of the company round him ...
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Page 442 - 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 ! Ah, wherefore?
Page 390 - 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 18 - standing in the midst of the tide.' 'The bridge thou seest,' said he, 'is Human Life; consider it attentively.' Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred.
Page 18 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, "Mirza," said he, "I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Page 444 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Page 19 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Page 446 - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he, in delight Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Page 346 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 443 - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn, Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar; Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.
Page 235 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.