The British Essayists, Том 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover farther ends of Providence in implanting this passion in man- kind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and ...
... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover farther ends of Providence in implanting this passion in man- kind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and ...
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... honours cannot at all change his manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once to shew he is full of business , and yet not so taken up as to forget his old ...
... honours cannot at all change his manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once to shew he is full of business , and yet not so taken up as to forget his old ...
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... honour you : therefore pray do not tell me of waiting until decencies , until forms , until humours are consulted and gratified , If you have that happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that ...
... honour you : therefore pray do not tell me of waiting until decencies , until forms , until humours are consulted and gratified , If you have that happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that ...
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... honour and gratitude , has very frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged partly by his advice , and partly by my own inclinations , in the courtship of a person who had a great deal of ...
... honour and gratitude , has very frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged partly by his advice , and partly by my own inclinations , in the courtship of a person who had a great deal of ...
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... honour upon myself , as on my readers , who give a much greater attention to discourses of virtue and morality than ever I expected , or indeed could hope . When I broke loose from that great body of writ- ers who have employed their ...
... honour upon myself , as on my readers , who give a much greater attention to discourses of virtue and morality than ever I expected , or indeed could hope . When I broke loose from that great body of writ- ers who have employed their ...
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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...