The Spectator, Volume 4George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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Pagina 8
... admire . . " For this reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who write in a positive dogmatic way , without either language , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best ...
... admire . . " For this reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who write in a positive dogmatic way , without either language , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best ...
Pagina 9
... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may observe the following lines in the same view : A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along . And afterwards : - ' Tis not enough no harshness ...
... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may observe the following lines in the same view : A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along . And afterwards : - ' Tis not enough no harshness ...
Pagina 22
... many malicious spies are searching into the actions of a great man , who is not always the best prepared for so narrow an inspection . For we may generally observe , that our admiration of a famous man lessens 22 No. 256 The SPECTATOR.
... many malicious spies are searching into the actions of a great man , who is not always the best prepared for so narrow an inspection . For we may generally observe , that our admiration of a famous man lessens 22 No. 256 The SPECTATOR.
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George Atherton Aitken. observe , that our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him ; and that we seldom hear the description of a cele- brated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and ...
George Atherton Aitken. observe , that our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him ; and that we seldom hear the description of a cele- brated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and ...
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... Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh discove- ries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its ...
... Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh discove- ries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 370 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Pagina 261 - 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...
Pagina 265 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Pagina 266 - 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...
Pagina 263 - 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...
Pagina 374 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Pagina 267 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves; There rest, if any rest can...
Pagina 263 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift 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 Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames, Driven.
Pagina 143 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Pagina 9 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...