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Pàgina 25
... fame is looked on as a meanness and imperfection in the greatest cha- racter . A solid and substantial greatness of ... fame and reputation of an action , to ascribe it to vain - glory , and a desire of fame in the actor . Nor is this ...
... fame is looked on as a meanness and imperfection in the greatest cha- racter . A solid and substantial greatness of ... fame and reputation of an action , to ascribe it to vain - glory , and a desire of fame in the actor . Nor is this ...
Pàgina 26
... fame by various ways is crost , Hard to be gain'd , and easy to be lost . HES . THERE are many passions and tempers of mind which naturally dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind . All those ...
... fame by various ways is crost , Hard to be gain'd , and easy to be lost . HES . THERE are many passions and tempers of mind which naturally dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind . All those ...
Pàgina 27
... fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill - natur- ed discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud themselves for the singularity of their judgment which has searched deeper than ...
... fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill - natur- ed discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud themselves for the singularity of their judgment which has searched deeper than ...
Pàgina 28
... fame , naturally betrays us into such slips and unwarinesses as are not incident to men of a contrary disposition . After all it must be confessed , that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little ...
... fame , naturally betrays us into such slips and unwarinesses as are not incident to men of a contrary disposition . After all it must be confessed , that a noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little ...
Pàgina 29
... fame in life and motion ; for when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and lan- guishes . Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with ...
... fame in life and motion ; for when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and lan- guishes . Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with ...
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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.