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... honour to print this among your speculations , I shall in my next make you a present of secret history , by ' translating all the looks of the next assembly of ' ladies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some fu- ' ture paper . " ' I ...
... honour to print this among your speculations , I shall in my next make you a present of secret history , by ' translating all the looks of the next assembly of ' ladies and gentlemen into words , to adorn some fu- ' ture paper . " ' I ...
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... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover farther ends of Providence in implanting this passion in mankind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and improved ...
... honour and reputation to the actor . But if we carry our reflections higher , we may discover farther ends of Providence in implanting this passion in mankind . It was necessary for the world , that arts should be invented and improved ...
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... honour to be well known and ' received among the nobility and gentry , were zea- ' lously inclined to assist , by their solicitations , in introducing so elegant an entertainment as the Italian music grafted upon English poetry . For ...
... honour to be well known and ' received among the nobility and gentry , were zea- ' lously inclined to assist , by their solicitations , in introducing so elegant an entertainment as the Italian music grafted upon English poetry . For ...
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... honours cannot at all change his manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once , to shew he is full of business , and yet is not so taken up as to forget his ...
... honours cannot at all change his manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once , to shew he is full of business , and yet is not so taken up as to forget his ...
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... honour you ; therefore ' pray do not tell me of waiting till decencies , till ' forms , till humours are consulted and gratified . ' If you have that happy constitution as to be indo- ' lent for ten weeks together , you should consider ...
... honour you ; therefore ' pray do not tell me of waiting till decencies , till ' forms , till humours are consulted and gratified . ' If you have that happy constitution as to be indo- ' lent for ten weeks together , you should consider ...
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Page 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...
Page 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Page 242 - 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...
Page 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.