The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and that , on the contrary , mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him des- pair of coming at fame , or that ...
... greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and that , on the contrary , mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him des- pair of coming at fame , or that ...
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... greatest character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with a generous neglect on the censures and ap- plauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we find in ...
... greatest character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with a generous neglect on the censures and ap- plauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we find in ...
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... greatest characters . In the next place , fame is easily lost , and as diffi- cult to be preserved as it was at first to be acquired . But this I shall make the subject of a following paper . - C . N ° 256. MONDAY , DECEMBER 24 , 1711 ...
... greatest characters . In the next place , fame is easily lost , and as diffi- cult to be preserved as it was at first to be acquired . But this I shall make the subject of a following paper . - C . N ° 256. MONDAY , DECEMBER 24 , 1711 ...
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... greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that , however surprising and ex- traordinary they may be , they are no more than what are expected from him ; but , on the contrary , if they fall any thing below ...
... greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that , however surprising and ex- traordinary they may be , they are no more than what are expected from him ; but , on the contrary , if they fall any thing below ...
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... greatest folly to seek the praise or approbation of any being , besides the Supreme , and that for these two reasons ; because no other being can make a right judgment of us , and esteem us according to our merits ; and because we can ...
... greatest folly to seek the praise or approbation of any being , besides the Supreme , and that for these two reasons ; because no other being can make a right judgment of us , and esteem us according to our merits ; and because we can ...
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Strona 218 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe. With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat...
Strona 254 - Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption - thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
Strona 220 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Strona 220 - 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.
Strona 156 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Strona 220 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift 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...
Strona 223 - Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass; for the water was stained to a surprising redness ; and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood.
Strona 224 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Strona 220 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...