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Pàgina 74
... speaking out , she says , Her maidenhead will yield me , let me see now : ..she is not fifteen they say : for her complexion ........ " Cloe , Cloe . Cloe here I have her , " Cloe , the daughter of a country gentleman ; " Her age upon ...
... speaking out , she says , Her maidenhead will yield me , let me see now : ..she is not fifteen they say : for her complexion ........ " Cloe , Cloe . Cloe here I have her , " Cloe , the daughter of a country gentleman ; " Her age upon ...
Pàgina 86
... speak with me . Upon my asking her who it was , she told me it was a very grave el- I derly person , but that she did not know his name . immediately went down to him , and found him ' to be the coachman of my worthy friend Sir Roger de ...
... speak with me . Upon my asking her who it was , she told me it was a very grave el- I derly person , but that she did not know his name . immediately went down to him , and found him ' to be the coachman of my worthy friend Sir Roger de ...
Pàgina 94
... speaking and thinking ; and always , if it can be done without prejudice to the sense , omit the many compliments and applauses which are usually bestowed upon me . Besides the two advantages above - mentioned which I receive from the ...
... speaking and thinking ; and always , if it can be done without prejudice to the sense , omit the many compliments and applauses which are usually bestowed upon me . Besides the two advantages above - mentioned which I receive from the ...
Pàgina 104
... speaking . Another principal actor in this poem is the great enemy of mankind . The part of Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle , as per- plexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intri- cacies , not only ...
... speaking . Another principal actor in this poem is the great enemy of mankind . The part of Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey is very much admired by Aristotle , as per- plexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intri- cacies , not only ...
Pàgina 105
... speak in his infernal assembly . On the contrary , how has he represented the whole Godhead exerting itself towards man in its full benevolence under the three - fold distinction of a Creator , a Redeemer , and a Comforter ! Nor must we ...
... speak in his infernal assembly . On the contrary , how has he represented the whole Godhead exerting itself towards man in its full benevolence under the three - fold distinction of a Creator , a Redeemer , and a Comforter ! Nor must we ...
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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.