Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volumen2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 |
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... CREATION 406 408 410 • 413 420 ON GARDENING . CATALOGUE OF EVERGREENS 422 SELECTIONS FROM THE FREEHOLDER . PRESTON HERO FOX - HUNTER MASQUERADE FOX - HUNTER CONVERTED 427 431 436 439 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR . ON THE PLEASURES OF ...
... CREATION 406 408 410 • 413 420 ON GARDENING . CATALOGUE OF EVERGREENS 422 SELECTIONS FROM THE FREEHOLDER . PRESTON HERO FOX - HUNTER MASQUERADE FOX - HUNTER CONVERTED 427 431 436 439 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR . ON THE PLEASURES OF ...
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... creation ; for every new idea brings such a pleasure along with it as rewards any pains we have taken in its acquisition , and consequently serves as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries . He has made everything that is beautiful ...
... creation ; for every new idea brings such a pleasure along with it as rewards any pains we have taken in its acquisition , and consequently serves as a motive to put us upon fresh discoveries . He has made everything that is beautiful ...
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... creation more gay and delightful . He has given almost everything about us the power of raising an agree- able idea in the imagination : so that it is impossible for us to behold his works with coldness or indifference , and to survey ...
... creation more gay and delightful . He has given almost everything about us the power of raising an agree- able idea in the imagination : so that it is impossible for us to behold his works with coldness or indifference , and to survey ...
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... creation of the world , the several meta- morphoses of the fallen angels , and the surprising adventures their leader meets with in his search after paradise ? No other subject could have furnished a poet with scenes so proper to strike ...
... creation of the world , the several meta- morphoses of the fallen angels , and the surprising adventures their leader meets with in his search after paradise ? No other subject could have furnished a poet with scenes so proper to strike ...
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... creation , and see the persons and manners of another species ? Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry , that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination . But to this it may be ...
... creation , and see the persons and manners of another species ? Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry , that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination . But to this it may be ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Adam and Eve ADDISON Æneas Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle Barsisa beautiful behaviour behold character chimæras circumstances colours consider creation creatures critics CRITIQUE ON MILTON'S death delight described discourse discover divine earth endeavoured entertained epic poem fable fallen angels fancy filled garden genius give hand happy hath heart heaven Helim Homer honour ideas Iliad images imagination infernal Jupiter kind king lady likewise lived look mankind manner Milton MILTON'S PARADISE LOST mind nature never noble observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper particular passage passed passion pastoral PASTORAL POETRY persons pleased pleasure poet poetical poetry proper reader represented Rhadamanthus santon Satan says scene sentiments Shalum sight speech spirit story sublime take notice tells Thammuz thee Theocritus things thou thought told Virgil wherein whole words writing
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Página 282 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 273 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Página 272 - Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? ' thus leave " Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, " Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend " Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day " That must be mortal to us both.
Página 203 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief 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...
Página 282 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 199 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 99 - ... which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church : for he was heard to say some time ago, that if he lived two years longer, Coverley church should have a steeple to it.
Página 114 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those Who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Página 210 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Página 281 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...