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... shall not be materially inter- rupted . As you will have to write in English , I would advise you to study the best models in your own language , for none has better writers of narrative . It will also be an improving ex- 6 NARRATION .
... shall not be materially inter- rupted . As you will have to write in English , I would advise you to study the best models in your own language , for none has better writers of narrative . It will also be an improving ex- 6 NARRATION .
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... English . " In the rapid survey which I am compelled to make of British historians , I shall pass over such works as Raleigh's History of the World , and Knolles's History of the Turks , as produc- tions long since consigned to the ...
... English . " In the rapid survey which I am compelled to make of British historians , I shall pass over such works as Raleigh's History of the World , and Knolles's History of the Turks , as produc- tions long since consigned to the ...
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... English composition had not ar- rived at perfection in his time ; and his periods are justly censured as long , embarassed , and sometimes ambiguous . Yet he was perhaps the first writer in prose who shewed the powers of the English ...
... English composition had not ar- rived at perfection in his time ; and his periods are justly censured as long , embarassed , and sometimes ambiguous . Yet he was perhaps the first writer in prose who shewed the powers of the English ...
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... English language . Few provincial or idiomatic phrases appear in his classical pages . He is sufficiently florid and fanciful to interest continually , and yet not so much as to tire or disgust . His ar- rangement is always luminous ...
... English language . Few provincial or idiomatic phrases appear in his classical pages . He is sufficiently florid and fanciful to interest continually , and yet not so much as to tire or disgust . His ar- rangement is always luminous ...
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... English language endures . The preliminary dissertation is the best view which is any where to be found of the feudal institutions , though it might have been spared from the history ; for they were almost at an end when the history ...
... English language endures . The preliminary dissertation is the best view which is any where to be found of the feudal institutions , though it might have been spared from the history ; for they were almost at an end when the history ...
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Página 65 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Página 167 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 90 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Página 105 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 166 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 57 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Página 166 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Página 168 - Csesar with a senate at his heels. In Parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others...
Página 167 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
Página 195 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...