The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volumes 27-34 |
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... described to have cast his eye , are repre- ented in the most beautiful and lively manner : ' Now had th ' Almighty Father from above ( From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height ) bent down his eye , His own ...
... described to have cast his eye , are repre- ented in the most beautiful and lively manner : ' Now had th ' Almighty Father from above ( From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height ) bent down his eye , His own ...
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... described , and tempered with a due measure of probability . I must only make an exception to the Limbo of Vanity , with his episode of Sin and Death , and some of the imaginary persons in his chaos . These passages are astonishing ...
... described , and tempered with a due measure of probability . I must only make an exception to the Limbo of Vanity , with his episode of Sin and Death , and some of the imaginary persons in his chaos . These passages are astonishing ...
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... described as the opening through which the angels pass to and fro into the lower world , upon their errands to mankind . His sitting upon the brink of this passage , and taking a survey of the whole face of nature , that appeared to him ...
... described as the opening through which the angels pass to and fro into the lower world , upon their errands to mankind . His sitting upon the brink of this passage , and taking a survey of the whole face of nature , that appeared to him ...
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... . The person who kept this insipid journal led just such a life as is described and ridiculed here , and was continually asking or quot- ing his pastor's opinion on every subject . Two o'clock . Sat down to dinner . Mem . 36 SPECTATOR .
... . The person who kept this insipid journal led just such a life as is described and ridiculed here , and was continually asking or quot- ing his pastor's opinion on every subject . Two o'clock . Sat down to dinner . Mem . 36 SPECTATOR .
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... described as perching on the top of an oak in the shape of vultures . His planting himself at the ear of Eve under the form of a toad , in order to produce vain dreams and imaginations , is a circumstance of the same na- ture ; as his ...
... described as perching on the top of an oak in the shape of vultures . His planting himself at the ear of Eve under the form of a toad , in order to produce vain dreams and imaginations , is a circumstance of the same na- ture ; as his ...
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Page 58 - 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 ! Ah, wherefore?
Page 88 - 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 61 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 312 - 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.
Page 87 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 260 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 279 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! 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.
Page 188 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 189 - Under his forming hands a creature grew, Manlike, 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, in her contain'd, And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 81 - What thou see'st, What there thou see'st, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes...