The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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Strana 26
... verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . " 1 Rinaldo , an opera , planned by Aaron Hill : versified by G. Rossi , set by Handel . Walsh got £ 1,500 by printing it.-G. 2 A Malherbe , à Racan préférer Théophile Et ...
... verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . " 1 Rinaldo , an opera , planned by Aaron Hill : versified by G. Rossi , set by Handel . Walsh got £ 1,500 by printing it.-G. 2 A Malherbe , à Racan préférer Théophile Et ...
Strana 35
... verses out of his poem of Vandyke . The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But , confounded with thy art , Inquires her name that has his heart . I pronounced these words with such a languishing air ...
... verses out of his poem of Vandyke . The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But , confounded with thy art , Inquires her name that has his heart . I pronounced these words with such a languishing air ...
Strana 37
... verse together every night . I remember , upon my inquiring after lodgings in Ormond - street , the landlord , to recommend that quarter of the town , told me , there was at that time a very good club in it he also told me , upon ...
... verse together every night . I remember , upon my inquiring after lodgings in Ormond - street , the landlord , to recommend that quarter of the town , told me , there was at that time a very good club in it he also told me , upon ...
Strana 39
... verses for their toasting glasses were written by Garth , and the portraits of all its members painted by Kneller , who was himself one of their num- ber ; hence all portraits of the same dimensions are at this time known by the name of ...
... verses for their toasting glasses were written by Garth , and the portraits of all its members painted by Kneller , who was himself one of their num- ber ; hence all portraits of the same dimensions are at this time known by the name of ...
Strana 48
... verse in old Hesiod , which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage . -Nor think , though men were none , That Heav'n would want spectators , God want praise : 1 Millions of spiritual creatures walk ...
... verse in old Hesiod , which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage . -Nor think , though men were none , That Heav'n would want spectators , God want praise : 1 Millions of spiritual creatures walk ...
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acrostics Addison admire Æneid anagrams ancient appear audience beautiful behaviour body Cicero club conversation creatures delight discourse dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour English entertainment epigram Eudoxus face fair sex figure filled forbear friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra hand head heart honour Hudibras humour insomuch kind kings ladies laugh learned letter likewise lion live look mankind manner means Milston mind Mohocks nation nature never night observed occasion opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion person pleased pleasure poem poet present privy counsellor proper reader reason ridiculous ROSCOMMON says sense shew short side soul speak species Spectator Tatler tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told Tory tragedy trochee Tryphiodorus verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing
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Strana 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Strana 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Strana 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Strana 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Strana 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Strana 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Strana 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Strana 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Strana 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Strana 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.