The British Essayists, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... Matters 270. Reflections on the Characters in the Scornful Lady ADDISON .. STEELE 271. Letters from Tom Trippit , com- plaining of a Greek Quotation- soliciting a Peep at Sir Roger from a Shewman ...... ADDISON 272. Letters from ...
... Matters 270. Reflections on the Characters in the Scornful Lady ADDISON .. STEELE 271. Letters from Tom Trippit , com- plaining of a Greek Quotation- soliciting a Peep at Sir Roger from a Shewman ...... ADDISON 272. Letters from ...
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... matter in one of your this week's papers , and desire when my house opens you will accept the liberty of it for the trouble you have received from , SIR , Your humble servant , RALPH CROTCHET . ' P. S. I have assurances that the trunk ...
... matter in one of your this week's papers , and desire when my house opens you will accept the liberty of it for the trouble you have received from , SIR , Your humble servant , RALPH CROTCHET . ' P. S. I have assurances that the trunk ...
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... matter , that when Mr. Clayton had finished his stu- dies in Italy , and brought over the opera of Arsinoe , that Mr. Haym and Mr. Dieupart , who had the ho- nour to be well known and received among the no- bility and gentry , were ...
... matter , that when Mr. Clayton had finished his stu- dies in Italy , and brought over the opera of Arsinoe , that Mr. Haym and Mr. Dieupart , who had the ho- nour to be well known and received among the no- bility and gentry , were ...
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... matter unworthy of your paper , which generally contains something of public use ; give us leave to say , that favouring our design is no less than reviving an art , which runs to ruin by the utmost barbarism under an affectation of ...
... matter unworthy of your paper , which generally contains something of public use ; give us leave to say , that favouring our design is no less than reviving an art , which runs to ruin by the utmost barbarism under an affectation of ...
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... ing it might have afforded matter to many ludicrous speculations . Among those advantages which the public may reap from this paper , it is not the least that it draws men's minds off from the bitterness of No 262 . 39 SPECTATOR .
... ing it might have afforded matter to many ludicrous speculations . Among those advantages which the public may reap from this paper , it is not the least that it draws men's minds off from the bitterness of No 262 . 39 SPECTATOR .
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Page 238 - 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.
Page 275 - Heaven that He ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption — thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
Page 237 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 242 - A shout, that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air...
Page 238 - 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!
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Page 237 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Page 151 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Page 240 - 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...
Page 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...