Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Bind 2Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Edward Moxon, 1849 |
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... persons , to alienate so much ground from pas- turage , and the plough , in many parts of a country that is so well peopled , and cultivated to a far greater advantage . But why may not a whole estate be thrown into a kind of a garden ...
... persons , to alienate so much ground from pas- turage , and the plough , in many parts of a country that is so well peopled , and cultivated to a far greater advantage . But why may not a whole estate be thrown into a kind of a garden ...
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... persons who look upon some of these wonders of art as fabulous ; but I cannot find any ground for such a suspicion , unless it be that we have no such works among us at present . There were indeed many greater advantages for building in ...
... persons who look upon some of these wonders of art as fabulous ; but I cannot find any ground for such a suspicion , unless it be that we have no such works among us at present . There were indeed many greater advantages for building in ...
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... person that are carved or described . It is sufficient that we have seen places , persons , or actions in general which bear a resem- blance , or at least some remote analogy , with what we find represented ; since it is in the power of ...
... person that are carved or described . It is sufficient that we have seen places , persons , or actions in general which bear a resem- blance , or at least some remote analogy , with what we find represented ; since it is in the power of ...
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... persons are most of them godlike and terrible ; Virgil has scarce admitted any into his poem who are not beautiful , and has taken particular care to make his hero so . 66 lumenque juventæ Purpureum , et lætos oculis afflavit honores ...
... persons are most of them godlike and terrible ; Virgil has scarce admitted any into his poem who are not beautiful , and has taken particular care to make his hero so . 66 lumenque juventæ Purpureum , et lætos oculis afflavit honores ...
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... persons as have many of them no existence but what he bestows on them . Such are fairies , witches , magicians , demons , and departed spirits . This Mr. Dryden calls " the fairy way of writing ; " which is , indeed , more difficult ...
... persons as have many of them no existence but what he bestows on them . Such are fairies , witches , magicians , demons , and departed spirits . This Mr. Dryden calls " the fairy way of writing ; " which is , indeed , more difficult ...
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Adam Adam and Eve ADDISON Æneas Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle Barsisa beautiful behaviour behold character chimæras circumstances colours consider creation creatures critics CRITIQUE ON MILTON'S death delight described discourse discover divine earth endeavoured entertained epic poem fable fallen angels fancy filled garden genius give hand happy hath heart heaven Helim Homer honour ideas Iliad images imagination infernal Jupiter kind king lady likewise lived look mankind manner Milton MILTON'S PARADISE LOST mind nature never noble observed occasion Ovid Pandæmonium paper particular passage passed passion pastoral PASTORAL POETRY persons pleased pleasure poet poetical poetry proper reader represented Rhadamanthus santon Satan says scene sentiments Shalum sight speech spirit story sublime take notice tells Thammuz thee Theocritus things thou thought told Virgil wherein whole words writing
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Side 282 - 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. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Side 273 - 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?
Side 272 - 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.
Side 203 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief 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...
Side 282 - 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.
Side 199 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Side 99 - ... which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish, that he has left money to build a steeple to the church : for he was heard to say some time ago, that if he lived two years longer, Coverley church should have a steeple to it.
Side 114 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those Who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Side 210 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Side 281 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...