The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 |
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Ajax alac amusement Arim Aristotle attention Aureng-Zebe beauty calamity celebrated censure common considered contempt cowardice curiosity Dagon danger daugh delight desire dignity discovered dread easily elegance eminence endeavour envy equal excellence expected eyes fame favour fear felicity fill folly force fortune frequently gain genius gratify happiness heart honour hope hour human idle ignorance Iliad imagination inclination indulgence inquiry JUNE 25 justly knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lest Long con mankind medicated gloves ment mind minth miscarriage misery nature necessary negligence nerally ness never observed once opinion OVID passions perhaps perpetual pleasure portunity praise produce prudence publick raise RAMBLER reason regard reproach Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sion solicited sometimes soon suffer sufficient superaddition surely tain thing thou thought tion TUESDAY Virgil virtue wars of Troy writers
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190 페이지 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
182 페이지 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
189 페이지 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
102 페이지 - To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction. But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza. His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Jonson boldly pronounces him
188 페이지 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
50 페이지 - For, who can congratulate himself upon a life passed 'without some act more mischievous to the peace or prosperity of others, than the theft of...
189 페이지 - Out, out, hyaena! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee...
271 페이지 - The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.
163 페이지 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
186 페이지 - Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust.