The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volumen 8J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... whole episode , the last line is a translation of that verse where Anchises mentions the names of places which they were to bear after ; Hæc tum nomina erunt , nunc sunt sine nomine terræ . The poet has very finely represented the joy ...
... whole episode , the last line is a translation of that verse where Anchises mentions the names of places which they were to bear after ; Hæc tum nomina erunt , nunc sunt sine nomine terræ . The poet has very finely represented the joy ...
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... whole body . The reader may observe with how poetical a de- scription Milton has attributed the same kind of motion to the angels who were to take possession of Paradise . So spake our mother Eve , and Adam heard Well pleas'd , but ...
... whole body . The reader may observe with how poetical a de- scription Milton has attributed the same kind of motion to the angels who were to take possession of Paradise . So spake our mother Eve , and Adam heard Well pleas'd , but ...
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... whole without descending to particulars . I have therefore be- stowed a paper upon each book , and endeavour- ed not only to prove that the poem is beautiful in general , but to point out its particular beauties , and to determine ...
... whole without descending to particulars . I have therefore be- stowed a paper upon each book , and endeavour- ed not only to prove that the poem is beautiful in general , but to point out its particular beauties , and to determine ...
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... whole world acts the player . It is cer- tain that if we look all around us , and behold the different employments of mankind , you hardly see one who is not , as the player is , in an assu- med character . The lawyer , who is vehement ...
... whole world acts the player . It is cer- tain that if we look all around us , and behold the different employments of mankind , you hardly see one who is not , as the player is , in an assu- med character . The lawyer , who is vehement ...
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... as can be expected from a man in the circumstances of being ready to perish out of fear and hunger ; he wonders throughout the whole scene very masterly , without neglecting his victu- als . 14 No. 370 . THE SPECTATOR .
... as can be expected from a man in the circumstances of being ready to perish out of fear and hunger ; he wonders throughout the whole scene very masterly , without neglecting his victu- als . 14 No. 370 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Página 48 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Página 188 - tis sweet to visit first Untouch'd and virgin streams, and quench my thirst. CREECB. Ouu sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses: it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 9 - They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 7 - Which he hath sent propitious some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay ; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou. Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence This further consolation yet secure I carry hence ; though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed, By me the promised Seed shall all restore.
Página 189 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Página 128 - Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did I at any time so...
Página 129 - ... mine enemies, withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Página 7 - Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning. High in front...
Página 206 - Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible, Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush...
Página 49 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.