The British Essayists, Volume 11Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... pleasure has in it something insolent and improper for our being . There is a pretty sober liveliness in the ode of Horace to Delius , where he tells him , loud mirth , or immoderate sorrow , inequality of behaviour either in prosperity ...
... pleasure has in it something insolent and improper for our being . There is a pretty sober liveliness in the ode of Horace to Delius , where he tells him , loud mirth , or immoderate sorrow , inequality of behaviour either in prosperity ...
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... pleasure , and at the same time so just a sense of that gentleman's intrepidity and conduct , that I could not forbear desiring a re- petition of it , by crying out " Altro Volto , " in a very audible voice ; and my friends flatter me ...
... pleasure , and at the same time so just a sense of that gentleman's intrepidity and conduct , that I could not forbear desiring a re- petition of it , by crying out " Altro Volto , " in a very audible voice ; and my friends flatter me ...
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... pleasure and complacency : Thus while God spake , ambrosial fragrance fill'd All heav'n , and in the blessed spirit elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd . Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father ...
... pleasure and complacency : Thus while God spake , ambrosial fragrance fill'd All heav'n , and in the blessed spirit elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd . Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father ...
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... pleasure for the reality of its com . plaints , this may have reason to hope for a favour . able acceptance ; and if ... pleasures ; but now one face of indolence overspreads the whole , and I have no land - mark to direct myself by ...
... pleasure for the reality of its com . plaints , this may have reason to hope for a favour . able acceptance ; and if ... pleasures ; but now one face of indolence overspreads the whole , and I have no land - mark to direct myself by ...
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... pleasure , honour , and riches , are things for which he has no taste . But notwith- standing all this , and what else he may defend him- self with , as that the lady is too old or too young ; of a suitable humour , or the quite ...
... pleasure , honour , and riches , are things for which he has no taste . But notwith- standing all this , and what else he may defend him- self with , as that the lady is too old or too young ; of a suitable humour , or the quite ...
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Page 86 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 187 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Page 301 - The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 79 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself, With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine ; to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Page 275 - 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...
Page 59 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Page 331 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rising Sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Page 119 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 79 - Return, fair Eve ; Whom fliest thou ? whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life ; to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear. Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim, My other half.
Page 329 - Oh, spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing Spring ; See lofty Lebanon his head advance : See nodding forests on the mountains dance ; See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies ! Hark ! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers : Prepare the way ! a God ! a God appears ! A God ! a God ! the vocal hills reply, The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity.