Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumul 41812 |
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Pagina 8
... never forsakes it , that some sparks of intel- lect were at all times visible , through the whole of this dark and dreary period . It is here we must look for the taste and literature of the times . The few who were enlightened , when ...
... never forsakes it , that some sparks of intel- lect were at all times visible , through the whole of this dark and dreary period . It is here we must look for the taste and literature of the times . The few who were enlightened , when ...
Pagina 28
... never speaks of him with respect , nor of his government but as a proper tyranny ; calling him , a master of three most pestilent vices , luxury , avarice , cruelty . ' He was the first of his family whose dead body was burnt ; for ...
... never speaks of him with respect , nor of his government but as a proper tyranny ; calling him , a master of three most pestilent vices , luxury , avarice , cruelty . ' He was the first of his family whose dead body was burnt ; for ...
Pagina 30
... never began to fear him till it was too late . Cicero warmly dissuaded both his union and his breach with Cæsar ; and after the rupture , as warmly still , the thought of giving him battle : if any of these counsels had been followed ...
... never began to fear him till it was too late . Cicero warmly dissuaded both his union and his breach with Cæsar ; and after the rupture , as warmly still , the thought of giving him battle : if any of these counsels had been followed ...
Pagina 35
... never rest , till he made himself a monarch . In acting this last part , his usual prudence seemed to fail him : as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his head , and made him giddy : for , by a vain os- tentation of his ...
... never rest , till he made himself a monarch . In acting this last part , his usual prudence seemed to fail him : as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his head , and made him giddy : for , by a vain os- tentation of his ...
Pagina 37
... never - failing presence of mind . He was strict in his discipline , and kept his soldiers in perfect obedience ; yet preserved their affection . Having been from his very childhood continually in war , and at the head of armies , he ...
... never - failing presence of mind . He was strict in his discipline , and kept his soldiers in perfect obedience ; yet preserved their affection . Having been from his very childhood continually in war , and at the head of armies , he ...
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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.