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... pleased when they have taken him in the worst and most disadvantageous light . There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They ...
... pleased when they have taken him in the worst and most disadvantageous light . There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They ...
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... pleased by some implicit kind of revenge to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank , who had so far raised himself above us in the reports and opinions of mankind . Thus we see how ...
... pleased by some implicit kind of revenge to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank , who had so far raised himself above us in the reports and opinions of mankind . Thus we see how ...
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... pleased with the enjoyment of it . For though the presence of this imaginary good cannot make us happy , the absence of it may make us miserable ; because in the enjoyment of an object we only find that share of pleasure which it is ...
... pleased with the enjoyment of it . For though the presence of this imaginary good cannot make us happy , the absence of it may make us miserable ; because in the enjoyment of an object we only find that share of pleasure which it is ...
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... pleased and happy with a person of a contrary one , notwith- standing they are both perhaps equally virtuous and laudable in their kind . Before marriage we cannot be too inquisitive and discerning in the faults of the person beloved ...
... pleased and happy with a person of a contrary one , notwith- standing they are both perhaps equally virtuous and laudable in their kind . Before marriage we cannot be too inquisitive and discerning in the faults of the person beloved ...
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... pleased ' my father , and I omitted for no other reason , but ' that I thought what he proposed the effect of hu- ' mour and old age , which I am now convinced had ' reason and good sense in it . I cannot now go ' into the parlour to ...
... pleased ' my father , and I omitted for no other reason , but ' that I thought what he proposed the effect of hu- ' mour and old age , which I am now convinced had ' reason and good sense in it . I cannot now go ' into the parlour to ...
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Page 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 240 - 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 335 - 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 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 240 - 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 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 244 - 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 242 - 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 132 - 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 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.