Select British Classics, Volum 14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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Pàgina 176
... excellent piece , has not perhaps read one of the strongest persuasives to a religious life that ever was written in any language . The consideration , with which I shall close this essay upon death , is one of the most ancient and most ...
... excellent piece , has not perhaps read one of the strongest persuasives to a religious life that ever was written in any language . The consideration , with which I shall close this essay upon death , is one of the most ancient and most ...
Pàgina 197
... excellent and learned men have said on this occasion : but that there may be something here which would move a generous mind , like that of him who writ to me , I shall transcribe an handsome paragraph of Dr. Snape's sermon on these ...
... excellent and learned men have said on this occasion : but that there may be something here which would move a generous mind , like that of him who writ to me , I shall transcribe an handsome paragraph of Dr. Snape's sermon on these ...
Pàgina 209
... excellent pieces among the ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late years in our own country , are raised upon contrary plans . I must however own , that I think this kind of fable , which is the most perfect ...
... excellent pieces among the ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late years in our own country , are raised upon contrary plans . I must however own , that I think this kind of fable , which is the most perfect ...
Pàgina 234
... have drawn the picture larger than life ; but as this is but an im- perfect draught of so excellent a character , and as I cannot , will not hope to have any interest in her person , all that I can say of her is 234 THE SPECTATOR .
... have drawn the picture larger than life ; but as this is but an im- perfect draught of so excellent a character , and as I cannot , will not hope to have any interest in her person , all that I can say of her is 234 THE SPECTATOR .
Pàgina 263
... excellent . As to ' those geniuses , which may seem to have an equal aptitude for several things , he regards them as so many unfinished pieces of nature wrought off in " " ⚫ haste . There are indeed but very few to whom nature has ...
... excellent . As to ' those geniuses , which may seem to have an equal aptitude for several things , he regards them as so many unfinished pieces of nature wrought off in " " ⚫ haste . There are indeed but very few to whom nature has ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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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.