The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Haddon, 1819 - English essays |
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... Æneid liable to exception upon this account , it is in the beginning of the third book , where Æneas is repre- sented as tearing up the myrtle that dropped blood . To qualify this wonderful circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from ...
... Æneid liable to exception upon this account , it is in the beginning of the third book , where Æneas is repre- sented as tearing up the myrtle that dropped blood . To qualify this wonderful circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from ...
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... Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their opinions of the great beauties in those poems , they have nevertheless each of them disco- vered several master - strokes , which have escaped the observation of the rest . In ...
... Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their opinions of the great beauties in those poems , they have nevertheless each of them disco- vered several master - strokes , which have escaped the observation of the rest . In ...
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... Æneid , does not only insert it as a poetical embel- lishment , like the authors above mentioned , but makes an artful use of it for the proper carrying on of his fable , and for the breaking off the combat between the two warriors ...
... Æneid , does not only insert it as a poetical embel- lishment , like the authors above mentioned , but makes an artful use of it for the proper carrying on of his fable , and for the breaking off the combat between the two warriors ...
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... Æneid to begin in the second book of that poem . I could allege many reasons for my drawing the action of the Eneid rather from its immediate beginning in the first book , than from its remote beginning in the second ; and shew why I ...
... Æneid to begin in the second book of that poem . I could allege many reasons for my drawing the action of the Eneid rather from its immediate beginning in the first book , than from its remote beginning in the second ; and shew why I ...
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... Æneid , and has given offence to several critics , may be accounted for the same way . Virgil him- self , before he begins that relation , premises , that what he was going to tell appeared incredible , but that it was justified by ...
... Æneid , and has given offence to several critics , may be accounted for the same way . Virgil him- self , before he begins that relation , premises , that what he was going to tell appeared incredible , but that it was justified by ...
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Page 312 - 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 218 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 62 - To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom And from whom I was form'd, flesh of thy flesh, And without whom am to no end, my guide And head! what thou hast said is just and right. For we to him indeed all praises owe And daily thanks; I chiefly, who enjoy So far the happier lot, enjoying thee Preeminent by so much odds, while thou Like consort to thyself canst no where find.
Page 279 - With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ? Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
Page 276 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 88 - 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 350 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Page 63 - So spake our general mother, and, with eyes Of conjugal attraction unreproved And meek surrender, half embracing lean'd On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid...
Page 121 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 89 - If none regard ; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom, to behold but thee, nature's desire, In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.