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... speak of , and yet seems to ' be employed on objects directly before her . This eye is what affects chance - medley , and on a sud- den , as if it attended to another thing , turns all its ' charms against an ogler . The eye of ...
... speak of , and yet seems to ' be employed on objects directly before her . This eye is what affects chance - medley , and on a sud- den , as if it attended to another thing , turns all its ' charms against an ogler . The eye of ...
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... speaking . Since I have mentioned Longinus , who in his reflections has given us the same kind of sublime which he observes in the several passages that occa- sioned them ; I cannot but take notice , that our English author has after ...
... speaking . Since I have mentioned Longinus , who in his reflections has given us the same kind of sublime which he observes in the several passages that occa- sioned them ; I cannot but take notice , that our English author has after ...
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... speak of salutation at church , I must take notice that several of my correspondents have importuned me to consider that subject , and set- tle the point of decorum in that particular . I do not pretend to be the best courtier in the ...
... speak of salutation at church , I must take notice that several of my correspondents have importuned me to consider that subject , and set- tle the point of decorum in that particular . I do not pretend to be the best courtier in the ...
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... speak in relation to his under- standing ; whereas when we say of a woman , she has a fine , a long , or a good head , we speak only in relation to her commode . It is observed among birds , that nature has lavish- ed all her ornaments ...
... speak in relation to his under- standing ; whereas when we say of a woman , she has a fine , a long , or a good head , we speak only in relation to her commode . It is observed among birds , that nature has lavish- ed all her ornaments ...
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... speak of with so little mercy . It is very certain , that a modest woman cannot abhor the breach of chastity too much ; but pray let her hate it for herself , and only pity it in others . Will Honeycomb calls these over - offended ...
... speak of with so little mercy . It is very certain , that a modest woman cannot abhor the breach of chastity too much ; but pray let her hate it for herself , and only pity it in others . Will Honeycomb calls these over - offended ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.