The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Tập 9Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1806 |
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Trang 15 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...
Trang 16 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Trang 15 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place. There are connected to this grotto by a narrower...
Trang 343 - Foote, who loved any thing eccentric, saw these inscriptions, and hoping to extract some wit from the author, whom he justly concluded to be an odd character, he pulled off his hat, and thrusting his head through. a paper pane into the shop, called out,
Trang 144 - O unexpected ftroke, worfe than of death ! Muft I thus leave thee ?
Trang 174 - On th' other fide up rofe . Belial, in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer perfon loft not Heav'n ; he feemd For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was falfe and hollow ; though his Tongue Dropt Manna, and could make the worfe appear The...
Trang v - And fo refus'd might in opinion ftand His rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge muft earn. But they Dreaded not more th...
Trang 376 - In torrid climes, where nature pants for breath, Or tainted gales bring peftilence and death ; Where hurricanes are born, and whirlwinds fweep The raging billows of th...
Trang 144 - Redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious clame; But longer in this Paradife to dwell Permits not; to remove thee I am come,- 260 And fend thee from the garden forth to till The ground ,whence thou waft taken, fitter foil. He added not, for Adam at the news Heart-ftruck with chilling gripe of forrow flood, That all his fenfes bound; Eve, who unfeen, 265 Yet all had heard, with audible lament Difcover'd foon the place of her retire.
Trang 95 - But there is a time, when men will not fuffer bad things becaufe their anceftors have fuffered worfe. There is a time, when the hoary head of inveterate abufe will neither draw reverence, nor obtain protection.