The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... 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 answer this impatient gentle ...
... 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 answer this impatient gentle ...
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... minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men . And such a principle is ambition , or a desire of fame , by which great endowments are not ...
... minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men . And such a principle is ambition , or a desire of fame , by which great endowments are not ...
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... minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately ...
... minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him despair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately ...
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... mind is more apt to shew itself ) they become sparing and reserved in their commendations , they envy him the satisfaction of an applause , and look on their praises rather as a kind- ness done to his person , than as a tribute paid to ...
... mind is more apt to shew itself ) they become sparing and reserved in their commendations , they envy him the satisfaction of an applause , and look on their praises rather as a kind- ness done to his person , than as a tribute paid to ...
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... mind , to be worked up to any noble action by so self- ish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to mankind , or by a generous passion for the glory of him that ...
... mind , to be worked up to any noble action by so self- ish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to mankind , or by a generous passion for the glory of him that ...
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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.