The British Essayists, Том 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... discover farther ends of Providence in implanting this passion in man- kind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and improved , books written and trans- mitted to posterity , nations conquered and civilized ...
... discover farther ends of Providence in implanting this passion in man- kind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and improved , books written and trans- mitted to posterity , nations conquered and civilized ...
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... and complacency , if they discover none of the like errors and infirmities in themselves ; for while they are exposing another's weaknesses , they are tacitly aiming at their own commendations , who are 10 No 256 . SPECTATOR .
... and complacency , if they discover none of the like errors and infirmities in themselves ; for while they are exposing another's weaknesses , they are tacitly aiming at their own commendations , who are 10 No 256 . SPECTATOR .
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... discover themselves to the knowledge of others ; they are transacted in private without noise or show , and are only visible to the great Searcher of hearts . What actions can express the entire purity of thought which refines and ...
... discover themselves to the knowledge of others ; they are transacted in private without noise or show , and are only visible to the great Searcher of hearts . What actions can express the entire purity of thought which refines and ...
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... discover the least appearance of perfection in him , and such a goodness as will proportion a reward to it ? Let the ambitious man therefore turn all his de- sire of fame this way ; and that he may propose to himself a fame worthy of ...
... discover the least appearance of perfection in him , and such a goodness as will proportion a reward to it ? Let the ambitious man therefore turn all his de- sire of fame this way ; and that he may propose to himself a fame worthy of ...
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... discover beauties and excellencies in the writers of my own time , than to publish any of their faults and imperfections . In the mean while I should take it for a very great favour from some of my underhand de- tractors , if they would ...
... discover beauties and excellencies in the writers of my own time , than to publish any of their faults and imperfections . In the mean while I should take it for a very great favour from some of my underhand de- tractors , if they would ...
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Сторінка 238 - 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.
Сторінка 275 - 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. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption — thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
Сторінка 237 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Сторінка 242 - A shout, that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air...
Сторінка 238 - 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!
Сторінка 123 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Сторінка 237 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Сторінка 151 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Сторінка 240 - 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...
Сторінка 238 - 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...