Select British Classics, Volum 14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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Pàgina 62
... sentiments of his mind , as the features of his face . The felicity is , when any one is so happy as to find out and follow what is the proper bent of his genius , and turn all his endeavours to exert himself according as that prompts ...
... sentiments of his mind , as the features of his face . The felicity is , when any one is so happy as to find out and follow what is the proper bent of his genius , and turn all his endeavours to exert himself according as that prompts ...
Pàgina 93
... sentiments in both of them are such as do not arise in fools of their education . We all know that a silly scholar , instead of being below every one he meets with , is apt to be exalted above the rank of such as are really his ...
... sentiments in both of them are such as do not arise in fools of their education . We all know that a silly scholar , instead of being below every one he meets with , is apt to be exalted above the rank of such as are really his ...
Pàgina 122
... sentiments , I shall say nothing more to it at present . I was also offended at a small patch she wore on her breast , which I cannot suppose is placed there with any good design . Her necklace was of an immoderate length , being tied ...
... sentiments , I shall say nothing more to it at present . I was also offended at a small patch she wore on her breast , which I cannot suppose is placed there with any good design . Her necklace was of an immoderate length , being tied ...
Pàgina 128
... sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the per- sons whom he introduces , and are just when they are conformable to the characters of the several persons . The sentiments have likewise a ...
... sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behaviour which the author ascribes to the per- sons whom he introduces , and are just when they are conformable to the characters of the several persons . The sentiments have likewise a ...
Pàgina 129
... sentiments , there are none who could have risen up to the greatness of others . Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments . Milton shines likewise very much in this particular : nor must we omit one ...
... sentiments , there are none who could have risen up to the greatness of others . Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments . Milton shines likewise very much in this particular : nor must we omit one ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance action Adam and Eve admired Æneid agreeable angels appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances creature critics desire discourse dress entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame father fault favour FEBRUARY 27 female fortune genius gentleman give grace greatest happiness head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady letter lived look lover MADAM mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pleased pleasure poet pray present proper Quintilian racters reader reason reflections reputation Satan sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thou thought tion told town turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words 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.