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Pàgina 26
Desire of fame by various ways is crost , Hard to be gain'd , and easy to be lost .
THERE are many passions and tempers of niind which naturally dispose us to
depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind . All those who
...
Desire of fame by various ways is crost , Hard to be gain'd , and easy to be lost .
THERE are many passions and tempers of niind which naturally dispose us to
depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind . All those who
...
Pàgina 32
I have first of all considered the reasons why Providence may have implanted in
our mind such a principle of action . I have in the next place shewn , from many
considerations , first , that fame is a thing difficult to be obtained , and easily lost ...
I have first of all considered the reasons why Providence may have implanted in
our mind such a principle of action . I have in the next place shewn , from many
considerations , first , that fame is a thing difficult to be obtained , and easily lost ...
Pàgina 76
THERE is nothing in nature so irksome as general discourses , especially when
they turn chiefly upon words . For this reason I shall wave the discussion of that
point which was started some years since , whether Milton's Paradise Lost may
be ...
THERE is nothing in nature so irksome as general discourses , especially when
they turn chiefly upon words . For this reason I shall wave the discussion of that
point which was started some years since , whether Milton's Paradise Lost may
be ...
Pàgina 77
Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost , with an
infernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposed to
celebrate ; and as for those great actions , which preceded in point of time , the
battle of ...
Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost , with an
infernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposed to
celebrate ; and as for those great actions , which preceded in point of time , the
battle of ...
Pàgina 132
The only piece of pleasantry in Paradise Lost , is where the evil spirits are
described as rallying the angels upon the success of their new - invented artillery
. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem , as
being ...
The only piece of pleasantry in Paradise Lost , is where the evil spirits are
described as rallying the angels upon the success of their new - invented artillery
. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem , as
being ...
Què en diuen els usuaris - Escriviu una ressenya
No hem trobat cap ressenya als llocs habituals.
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
action admired affect agreeable appear beauty behaviour carried character circumstances common consider critics desire discover dress excellent expression fable face fall fame father fortune give given greater greatest hand happiness head heart Homer honour hope humble servant keep kind lady late learning leave less letter light lived look Lost mankind manner matter means mention Milton mind nature never obliged observed occasion once opinion particular pass passage passion perfect person pleased pleasure poem poet present proper raise reader reason received reflections regard relation sense sentiments short speak SPECTATOR spirit taken tell thing thought tion told town turn virtue whole woman women write young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pàgina 240 - 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.
Pàgina 335 - 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...
Pàgina 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Pàgina 240 - 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.
Pàgina 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Pàgina 244 - 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 242 - 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...
Pàgina 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Pàgina 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Select British Classics, Volum 14 Select British Classics |
| Editor | J. Conrad, 1803 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalitzat el | 3 Nov. 2006 |
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