The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 6J. Crissy, 1824 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... greatest , endowments . Nor were it a circumstance to be mentioned , if the graces and attractions of your person were not the only pre - eminence you have above others , which is left , almost , unobserved by greater wri- 119976 TO THE ...
... greatest , endowments . Nor were it a circumstance to be mentioned , if the graces and attractions of your person were not the only pre - eminence you have above others , which is left , almost , unobserved by greater wri- 119976 TO THE ...
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... person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality which is prepared for good princes , lawgivers , and he- roes , when HE , in his due time , removes them ...
... person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality which is prepared for good princes , lawgivers , and he- roes , when HE , in his due time , removes them ...
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... person , but that she did not know his name . I immediately went down to him , and found him to be the coachman of my worthy friend Sir Roger de Coverley . He told me that his mas- ter came to town last night , and would be glad to take ...
... person , but that she did not know his name . I immediately went down to him , and found him to be the coachman of my worthy friend Sir Roger de Coverley . He told me that his mas- ter came to town last night , and would be glad to take ...
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... am really free from forming any hopes of beholding the persons of beautiful women , or warming myself into am- bition from the successes of other men , this world is not only a mere scene , but a very 12 No. 270 . THE SPECTATOR .
... am really free from forming any hopes of beholding the persons of beautiful women , or warming myself into am- bition from the successes of other men , this world is not only a mere scene , but a very 12 No. 270 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... person that speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his cha- racters . He has introduced among his Grecian princes a person ...
... person that speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his cha- racters . He has introduced among his Grecian princes a person ...
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Page 177 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 179 - To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
Page 217 - Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Page 215 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence...
Page 177 - 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 248 - Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all height, bent down his eye, His own works, and their works, at once to view : About him all the sanctities of heaven Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received Beatitude past utterance...
Page 247 - The passions which they are designed to raise, are a divine love and religious fear. The particular beauty of the speeches in the third book consists in that shortness and perspicuity of style, in which the poet has couched the greatest mysteries of Christianity, and drawn together, in a regular scheme, the whole dispensation of Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination...
Page 248 - Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father shone Substantially express'd : and in his face Divine compassion visibly appear'd, Love without end, and without measure grace...
Page 38 - The skins of the forehead were extremely tough and thick, and, what Very much surprised us, had not in them any single blood-vessel that we were able to discover, either with or without our glasses; from whence we concluded, that the party when alive must have been entirely deprived of the faculty of blushing.
Page 55 - The loves of Dido and ^Eneas are only copies of what has passed between other persons. Adam and Eve, before the fall, are a different species from that of mankind, who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention, and the most exquisite judgment, could have filled their conversation and behaviour with so many circumstances during their state of innocence.