The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Томови 17-18 |
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... learning , to descend to familiar life , and caution mankind against that petty ambition which is known among us by the name of vanity ; which yet had been an undertaking not unworthy of the longest beard and most solemn austerity ...
... learning , to descend to familiar life , and caution mankind against that petty ambition which is known among us by the name of vanity ; which yet had been an undertaking not unworthy of the longest beard and most solemn austerity ...
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... learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert , where he roars without reply , and ravages without resistance . Without good - humour virtue may awe by its dignity , and amaze by ...
... learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert , where he roars without reply , and ravages without resistance . Without good - humour virtue may awe by its dignity , and amaze by ...
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... learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit calls all attention from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . " It is remarked by prince Henry , when he sees Falstaff lying on the ground , that he could ...
... learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit calls all attention from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . " It is remarked by prince Henry , when he sees Falstaff lying on the ground , that he could ...
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... learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base ex- traction , the child of vanity , and nursling of igno- rance . No. 75. TUESDAY , DECEMBER 4 , 1750 . Diligitur nemo , nisi cui Fortuna secunda est , Quæ simul intonuit , proxima ...
... learning or from wit , it is much oftener of base ex- traction , the child of vanity , and nursling of igno- rance . No. 75. TUESDAY , DECEMBER 4 , 1750 . Diligitur nemo , nisi cui Fortuna secunda est , Quæ simul intonuit , proxima ...
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... learning or their wit . " From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk , something may be gained , which , embellished with elegancy and soft- ened by modesty , will always add dignity and value to female ...
... learning or their wit . " From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk , something may be gained , which , embellished with elegancy and soft- ened by modesty , will always add dignity and value to female ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty celebrated censure common considered contempt curiosity Dagon danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discovered DRYDEN easily elegance endeavoured envy equally expected eyes fancy father favour fear flattered folly fortune frequently genius gratify happiness heart hexameter honour hope hour human idleness imagination inclined inquiry JANUARY 26 judgement Jupiter justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less live look mankind ment Milton mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect nerally ness never numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions pauses perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poets portunity praise precepts produce quired racters RAMBLER reason regard reproach rest risum Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sound spect suffer surely suspiria syllables thing thou thought tion tivate truth TUESDAY tural vanity verse VIRG Virgil virtue wisdom writer
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Страница 167 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Страница 33 - O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
Страница 192 - THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.
Страница 252 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Страница 106 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Страница 145 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Страница 248 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Страница 136 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...
Страница 145 - Mosaic ; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none, Such was their awe of man.
Страница 26 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...