Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 páginas |
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... language into a barbarous jar- gon ; her temples have been given up to the successive depredations of Romans , Turks , and Scotchmen ; but her intellectual empire is im- perishable . And when those who have rivalled her greatness shall ...
... language into a barbarous jar- gon ; her temples have been given up to the successive depredations of Romans , Turks , and Scotchmen ; but her intellectual empire is im- perishable . And when those who have rivalled her greatness shall ...
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... language and elegance of his style . He has , I think , a fine , easy , and diversified narrative , mixed with reflections , moral and political , neither very trite and obvious , nor out of the way and abstract ; which is , I think ...
... language and elegance of his style . He has , I think , a fine , easy , and diversified narrative , mixed with reflections , moral and political , neither very trite and obvious , nor out of the way and abstract ; which is , I think ...
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... language in verse before Boccace , who likewise received no little help from his master Petrarch ; but the reformation of their prose was wholly owing to Boccace . DRYDEN . Boccace lived in the same age with Chaucer , had the same ...
... language in verse before Boccace , who likewise received no little help from his master Petrarch ; but the reformation of their prose was wholly owing to Boccace . DRYDEN . Boccace lived in the same age with Chaucer , had the same ...
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... language : he dissipated a noble for- tune in acts of charity and benevolence ; but , falling into misery in his old age , was refused to be admitted into an hospital which he him- self had erected . In Spain , it is said , the great ...
... language : he dissipated a noble for- tune in acts of charity and benevolence ; but , falling into misery in his old age , was refused to be admitted into an hospital which he him- self had erected . In Spain , it is said , the great ...
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... language and succession of images . Every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions ...
... language and succession of images . Every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions ...
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Página 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 83 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
Página 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
Página 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...