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... thought , which many young women of quality have enter- tained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain misfortune of their lives . The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at , and ...
... thought , which many young women of quality have enter- tained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain misfortune of their lives . The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at , and ...
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... of a Roman matron . You make already the enter- ' tainment at Mrs. Modish's tea table ; she says , she always thought you a discreet person , and qualified ' to manage a family with admirable prudence ; she THE SPECTATOR . 19.
... of a Roman matron . You make already the enter- ' tainment at Mrs. Modish's tea table ; she says , she always thought you a discreet person , and qualified ' to manage a family with admirable prudence ; she THE SPECTATOR . 19.
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... thoughts . These things , dear madam , will be lasting satis- ' factions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs ... thought on ' any other way . My mind has ever since been so ' wholly bent on her , that I am much in danger of ...
... thoughts . These things , dear madam , will be lasting satis- ' factions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs ... thought on ' any other way . My mind has ever since been so ' wholly bent on her , that I am much in danger of ...
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... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his inte- rest or convenience , or that Providence , in the very frame of his soul , would not subject him to such a passion as would be useless to the world ...
... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his inte- rest or convenience , or that Providence , in the very frame of his soul , would not subject him to such a passion as would be useless to the world ...
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... thought : it is still reaching after an empty ima- ginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it . Most other things we long for can allay the cravings of their proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest ...
... thought : it is still reaching after an empty ima- ginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it . Most other things we long for can allay the cravings of their proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest ...
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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.