Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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... carried to perfection ; and which , by serving as the era of the greatness of the human mind , are examples for posterity . The first of these ages , to which true glory is annexed , is that of Philip and Alexander , or that of a ...
... carried to perfection ; and which , by serving as the era of the greatness of the human mind , are examples for posterity . The first of these ages , to which true glory is annexed , is that of Philip and Alexander , or that of a ...
Pagina 3
... carried further than under the Medicis , Augustus , and Alexander ; but human reason was in general more improved . In this age we first became acquainted with sound philo . sophy . It may truly be said , that from the last years of ...
... carried further than under the Medicis , Augustus , and Alexander ; but human reason was in general more improved . In this age we first became acquainted with sound philo . sophy . It may truly be said , that from the last years of ...
Pagina 4
... carried to perfec- tion , the transition is quickly made to the elegant and the agreeable ; and it is not at all astonishing , that painting , sculpture , poetry , eloquence , and philosophy , should be in a manner unknown to a nation ...
... carried to perfec- tion , the transition is quickly made to the elegant and the agreeable ; and it is not at all astonishing , that painting , sculpture , poetry , eloquence , and philosophy , should be in a manner unknown to a nation ...
Pagina 11
... carrying on war against their private enemies , in their own name and by their own authority . The ideas of political subjection were almost entirely lost , and frequently scarcely any appearance of feudal subordination remained ...
... carrying on war against their private enemies , in their own name and by their own authority . The ideas of political subjection were almost entirely lost , and frequently scarcely any appearance of feudal subordination remained ...
Pagina 15
... carried them to romantic excess . Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous discipline ; they were admitted into the order by solemnities no less devout than pompous ; every person of noble birth courted that honour ; it was ...
... carried them to romantic excess . Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous discipline ; they were admitted into the order by solemnities no less devout than pompous ; every person of noble birth courted that honour ; it was ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
admiration affable affection agreeable ambition appeared arts ASPASIO avarice beauty Boil Cæsar character Charles Chesterfield Cicero conduct countess of Somerset court crown danger death desired dignity disposition earl Edward Edward VI elegant enemies England equally errours Europe execution father favour favourite fortune give glory hand happy heart Henry Henry VIII honour house of lords human Hume Iago king kingdom lady Jane LADY JANE GREY learning less lived lord LORD BOLINGBROKE LORD TOWNSHEND mankind manners Mary matter ment mind minister monarch moral narch nation nature neral never noble passions perfect person philosopher Plato pleasure Pompey Pope possessed prince princess qualities queen racter reason regard reign religion rendered replied Rizio Roger Ascham seemed Sir John soul sovereign spirit Sterl subjects talents temper thing thou thought throne tion truth uncle Toby vices vigour violence virtue writers zeal
Pasaje populare
Pagina 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Pagina 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Pagina 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Pagina 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pagina 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Pagina 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Pagina 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Pagina 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Pagina 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Pagina 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.