The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 |
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Pàgina 208
... Dagon , to whom the idolaters as- cribed his overthrow : -Thou bear'st Enough , and more , the burthen of that fault ; Bitterly hast thou paid and still art paving That rigid score A worse thing yet remains , This day the Philistines a ...
... Dagon , to whom the idolaters as- cribed his overthrow : -Thou bear'st Enough , and more , the burthen of that fault ; Bitterly hast thou paid and still art paving That rigid score A worse thing yet remains , This day the Philistines a ...
Pàgina 210
... Dagon , with a summons , by which Samson is required to come and entertain them with some proof of his strength . Samson , after a short expostulation , dis- misses him with a firm and resolute refusal ; but during the absence of the ...
... Dagon , with a summons , by which Samson is required to come and entertain them with some proof of his strength . Samson , after a short expostulation , dis- misses him with a firm and resolute refusal ; but during the absence of the ...
Pàgina 217
... Dagon , he first justifies his behaviour to the chorus , who charge him with having served the Philistines , by a very just dis- tinction ; and then destroys the common excuse of cowardice and servility , which always con- found ...
... Dagon , he first justifies his behaviour to the chorus , who charge him with having served the Philistines , by a very just dis- tinction ; and then destroys the common excuse of cowardice and servility , which always con- found ...
Pàgina 218
... Dagon , Not dragging the Philistine lords command . Commands are no constraints . If I obey them , I do it freely , vent'ring to displease God for the fear of man , and man prefer , Set God behind . The complaint of blindness which ...
... Dagon , Not dragging the Philistine lords command . Commands are no constraints . If I obey them , I do it freely , vent'ring to displease God for the fear of man , and man prefer , Set God behind . The complaint of blindness which ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 190 - 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.
Pàgina 182 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Pàgina 189 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Pàgina 102 - To imitate the fictions and sentiments of Spenser can incur no reproach, for allegory is perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction. But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza. His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious, so darkened with old words and peculiarities of phrase, and so remote from common use, that Jonson boldly pronounces him
Pàgina 188 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Pàgina 50 - For, who can congratulate himself upon a life passed 'without some act more mischievous to the peace or prosperity of others, than the theft of...
Pàgina 189 - Out, out, hyaena! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee...
Pàgina 271 - The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.
Pàgina 163 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Pàgina 186 - Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust.