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Acastus acquaintance amusement appear Aristotle attention beauty Bias of Priene calamity censure character choral poetry common considered contempt conversation curiosity Dagon danger delight desire dignity diligence discovered easily elegance eminence endeavour envy equally escape expected eyes fame families the land fashionable songs father faults favour fear flattered folly fortune frequently friends gained genius gratify happiness heart honour hope human ignorance imagination inclination indulgence inquiry kind knowledge labour lady learning lect lence Leviculus live mankind marriage ment merit mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect negligence neral ness never observed once opinion Ovid pain passed passions perpetual pleasure portunity praise present pride produce pupillage racters RAMBLER reason received regard reproach reputation riches risum Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sion solicit sometimes soon suffer superaddition thing thought Thrasybulus tion TUESDAY tural vanity virtue wealth writer
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Страница 180 - these words I as a prophecy receive; for God, Nothing more certain, will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. This part of the dialogue, as it might tend to animate or exasperate Samson, cannot, I think, be censured as wholly superfluous ; but the succeeding dispute, in which Samson contends to die, and
Страница 186 - simple and unadorned, seldom heightened by epithets, or varied by figures ; yet sometimes metaphors find admission, even where their consistency is not accurately preserved. Thus Samson confounds loquacity with a shipwreck : How could I once look up, or heave the head, Who like a foolish pilot, have shipwreck'd My
Страница 188 - cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight
Страница 161 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.—POPE. THE regard which they whose abilities are employed in the works of imagination claim from the rest of mankind, arises in a great measure from their influence on futurity. Rank
Страница 185 - I know him by his stride, The giant Harapha. Sams. Be less abstruse, my riddling days are past. And yet more despicable are the lines in which Manoah's paternal kindness is commended by the chorus : Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay
Страница 187 - affords a just and striking description of the stratagems and allurements of feminine hypocrisy : And arts of every woman false like thee, To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray, Then as repentant to submit, beseech. And reconcilement move with feign'd remorse, Confess and promise wonders in
Страница 282 - her heav'n-built wall, Wand'ring from clime to clime observant stray'd, Their manners noted, and their states survey'd. On stormy seas unnumber'd toils he bore, Safe with his friends to gain his natal shore : Vain toils ! their impious folly dar'd to prey On herds devoted to the god of day : The god vindictive doom'd them never more (Ah,
Страница 188 - eye confin'd, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And not as feeling, thro' all parts diffus'd, That she may look at will thro' ev'ry pore ? Such are the faults and such the beauties of Samson Agonistes, which I have
Страница 46 - When Macbeth is confirming himself in the horrid purpose of stabbing his king, he breaks out amidst his emotions into a wish natural to a murderer : -Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dünnest smoke of hell, That
Страница 85 - 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 Johnson boldly pronounces him to have written no language. His stanza is at once difficult