The British Essayists: To which are Prefixed Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and CriticalJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... happy pair . But pray thee leave these whimsies , and come to town in order to live , and talk like other mortals . However , as I am ex- tremely interested in your reputation , I would will- ingly give you a little good advice at your ...
... happy pair . But pray thee leave these whimsies , and come to town in order to live , and talk like other mortals . However , as I am ex- tremely interested in your reputation , I would will- ingly give you a little good advice at your ...
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... happy hours when even I am shut out , and my dear master is en- tertained only with his own thoughts . These things , dear madam , will be lasting satisfactions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs , by whom they form themselves ...
... happy hours when even I am shut out , and my dear master is en- tertained only with his own thoughts . These things , dear madam , will be lasting satisfactions , when the fine ladies , and the coxcombs , by whom they form themselves ...
Side 15
... happy , the absence of it may make us miserable : because in the enjoyment of an object we only find that share of pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it ...
... happy , the absence of it may make us miserable : because in the enjoyment of an object we only find that share of pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it ...
Side 32
... happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that all that while I burn in impatiences and fevers ; but still you say it will be time enough , though I and you too grow older while we are yet talking ...
... happy constitution as to be indolent for ten weeks together , you should consider that all that while I burn in impatiences and fevers ; but still you say it will be time enough , though I and you too grow older while we are yet talking ...
Side 36
... happy to others , than really to make ourselves so . Of all disparities , that in humour makes the most unhappy marriages , yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contract- ing of them . Several that are in this respect un- equally ...
... happy to others , than really to make ourselves so . Of all disparities , that in humour makes the most unhappy marriages , yet scarce enters into our thoughts at the contract- ing of them . Several that are in this respect un- equally ...
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acquaintance action admirer Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty Beelzebub behaviour character circumstances Cottius creature critic desire dress DRYDEN endeavour Enville epic poem eyes fable fallen angels fame fault favour FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 18 female fortune genius give greatest happy head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad infernal innocent JANUARY 24 Julius Cæsar kind lady language late learning letter look lover mankind manner marriage Milton mind mistress Moloch nature never obliged observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion person PETER MOTTEUX petitioners pin-money pleased pleasure poem poet pray present prince proper racter reader reason reflection ROSCOMMON sentiments shew sion speak SPECTATOR spirit tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
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Side 238 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Side 242 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Side 241 - 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.
Side 148 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Side 276 - Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Side 236 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Side 279 - With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array; So wide they stood, and like a furnace mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame.
Side 169 - Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Side 240 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Side 35 - True love has ten thousand griefs, impatiences, and resentments, that render a man unamiable in the eyes of the person whose affection he solicits ; besides that it sinks his figure, gives him fears, apprehensions, and poorness of spirit, and often makes him appear ridiculous where he has a mind to recommend himself. Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy, that are preceded by a long courtship.