The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... thought , which many young women of quality have entertained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain mis- fortune 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 entertained , to the hazard of their characters , and the certain mis- fortune of their lives . The first of the following letters may best represent the faults I would now point at ; and ...
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... thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage a family with ad- mirable prudence ; she dies to see what demure and serious airs wedlock has given you ; but she says , she shall never forgive your choice of so gallant a man as ...
... thought you a discreet person , and qualified to manage a family with ad- mirable prudence ; she dies to see what demure and serious airs wedlock has given you ; but she says , she shall never forgive your choice of so gallant a man as ...
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... thought on any other way . My mind has ever since been so wholly bent on her , that I am much in danger of doing something very extrava- gant , without your speedy advice to , " SIR , • Your most humble servant . ' I am sorry I cannot ...
... thought on any other way . My mind has ever since been so wholly bent on her , that I am much in danger of doing something very extrava- gant , without your speedy advice to , " SIR , • Your most humble servant . ' I am sorry I cannot ...
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... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his interest 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 , and ...
... thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his interest 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 , and ...
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... thought . It is still reaching after an empty imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it . Most other things we long for , can allay the crav- ings of their proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at ...
... thought . It is still reaching after an empty imaginary good , that has not in it the power to abate or satisfy it . Most other things we long for , can allay the crav- ings of their proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at ...
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Page 360 - 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 8 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 364 - 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 ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Page 364 - 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 255 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 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 164 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
Page 255 - 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 293 - There went a fame in heaven, that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven.
Page 133 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Page 291 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.