The British Essayists: RamblerAlexander Chalmers C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... eyes put out ? - Whom have I to complain of but myself ? Who this high gift of strength , committed to me , In what part lodged , how easily bereft me , Under the seat of silence could not keep , But weakly to a woman must reveal it ...
... eyes put out ? - Whom have I to complain of but myself ? Who this high gift of strength , committed to me , In what part lodged , how easily bereft me , Under the seat of silence could not keep , But weakly to a woman must reveal it ...
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... eyes misrepresent ? Can this be he , That heroic , that renowned , Irresistible Samson : whom unarm'd , No strength of man , or fiercest wild beast , could withstand . Who tore the lion , as the lion tears the kid ? line 124 . Since I ...
... eyes misrepresent ? Can this be he , That heroic , that renowned , Irresistible Samson : whom unarm'd , No strength of man , or fiercest wild beast , could withstand . Who tore the lion , as the lion tears the kid ? line 124 . Since I ...
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... eye confined , So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? And not , as feeling , through all parts diffused , That she may look at will through every pore ? line 83 . Such are the faults and such the beauties of Sam- son Agonistes , which ...
... eye confined , So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? And not , as feeling , through all parts diffused , That she may look at will through every pore ? line 83 . Such are the faults and such the beauties of Sam- son Agonistes , which ...
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... eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions , dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of conceit . A lady's wit is a man who can make ladies laugh , to which , however easy it may seem , many gifts of nature , and attainments of ...
... eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions , dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of conceit . A lady's wit is a man who can make ladies laugh , to which , however easy it may seem , many gifts of nature , and attainments of ...
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... eyes of the company are fixed upon him as their last refuge from silence and dejection . " It were endless to recount the shifts to which I have been reduced , or to enumerate the different spe- cies of artificial wit . I regularly ...
... eyes of the company are fixed upon him as their last refuge from silence and dejection . " It were endless to recount the shifts to which I have been reduced , or to enumerate the different spe- cies of artificial wit . I regularly ...
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Страница 33 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Страница 175 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Страница 26 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Страница 51 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Страница 258 - ... how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence; we cannot be certain how much more we feel than was intended to be inflicted, or how much we increase the mischief to ourselves by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only because we have made ourselves delicate and tender ; we are on every side in danger of error and of guilt, which we are...
Страница 25 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Страница 106 - Cicero remarks, that not to know what has been transacted in former times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Страница 258 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows tho true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Страница 50 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Страница 83 - ... which prudence may confer on every state. Seneca has attempted not only to pacify us in misfortune, but almost to allure us to it, by representing it as necessary to the pleasures of the mind. " He that never was acquainted with adversity," says he, " has seen the world but on one side, and is ignorant of half the scenes of nature.