Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volum 2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 |
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Pàgina 8
... pleased the more it finds of these perfections in the same object , so it is capable of receiving a new satisfaction by the assistance of another sense . Thus any continued sound , as the music of birds , or a fall of water , awakens ...
... pleased the more it finds of these perfections in the same object , so it is capable of receiving a new satisfaction by the assistance of another sense . Thus any continued sound , as the music of birds , or a fall of water , awakens ...
Pàgina 12
... pleased as well with comparing their beauties , as with surveying them , and can represent them to our minds , either as copies or originals . Hence it is that we take delight in a prospect which is well laid out , and diversified with ...
... pleased as well with comparing their beauties , as with surveying them , and can represent them to our minds , either as copies or originals . Hence it is that we take delight in a prospect which is well laid out , and diversified with ...
Pàgina 17
... pleased me . It is in Monsieur Freart's parallel of the antient and modern architecture . I shall give it the reader with the same terms of art which he has made use of . " I am observing ( says he ) a thing , which , in my opinion , is ...
... pleased me . It is in Monsieur Freart's parallel of the antient and modern architecture . I shall give it the reader with the same terms of art which he has made use of . " I am observing ( says he ) a thing , which , in my opinion , is ...
Pàgina 24
... pleased than when he is in his elysium , or copying out an entertaining picture . Homer's epithets generally mark out what is great ; Virgil's , what is agreeable . Nothing can be more magnificent than the figure Jupiter makes in the ...
... pleased than when he is in his elysium , or copying out an entertaining picture . Homer's epithets generally mark out what is great ; Virgil's , what is agreeable . Nothing can be more magnificent than the figure Jupiter makes in the ...
Pàgina 27
... pleased with the original itself . Most readers , I believe , are more charmed with Milton's description of paradise than of hell : they are both , perhaps , equally perfect in their kind ; but in the one the brimstone and sulphur are ...
... pleased with the original itself . Most readers , I believe , are more charmed with Milton's description of paradise than of hell : they are both , perhaps , equally perfect in their kind ; but in the one the brimstone and sulphur are ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Adam Adam and Eve ADDISON Æneas Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle Barsisa beautiful behaviour behold character chimæras circumstances colours consider creation creatures critics CRITIQUE ON MILTON'S death delight described discourse discover divine earth endeavoured entertained epic poem fable fallen angels fancy filled garden genius give hand happy hath heart heaven Helim Homer honour ideas Iliad images imagination infernal Jupiter kind king lady likewise lived look mankind manner Milton MILTON'S PARADISE LOST mind nature never noble observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper particular passage passed passion pastoral PASTORAL POETRY persons pleased pleasure poet poetical poetry proper reader represented Rhadamanthus santon Satan says scene sentiments Shalum sight speech spirit story sublime take notice tells Thammuz thee Theocritus things thou thought told Virgil wherein whole words writing
Passatges populars
Pàgina 282 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Pàgina 273 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Pàgina 272 - Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? ' thus leave " Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, " Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend " Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day " That must be mortal to us both.
Pàgina 203 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose. He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Pàgina 282 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Pàgina 199 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Pàgina 99 - ... which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church : for he was heard to say some time ago, that if he lived two years longer, Coverley church should have a steeple to it.
Pàgina 114 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those Who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Pàgina 210 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Pàgina 281 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...