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... reasons , which I shall afterwards assign , this is by far the easiest form of narrative com- position . Let any man of letters try to compose an ar- gumentative , or even an oratorical discourse , and let him afterwards attempt a ...
... reasons , which I shall afterwards assign , this is by far the easiest form of narrative com- position . Let any man of letters try to compose an ar- gumentative , or even an oratorical discourse , and let him afterwards attempt a ...
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... reason for the long periods of Claren- don , and some other historians . It is difficult too to draw the picture ; for narrative is a pic- ture in words , so that it shall be full , clear , and impressive , and keep awake the reader's ...
... reason for the long periods of Claren- don , and some other historians . It is difficult too to draw the picture ; for narrative is a pic- ture in words , so that it shall be full , clear , and impressive , and keep awake the reader's ...
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... reasons which I have already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion is of sufficient importance . Historical writing as such , without reference to the poetical histories is very ...
... reasons which I have already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion is of sufficient importance . Historical writing as such , without reference to the poetical histories is very ...
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... reason is obvious - Oratory is nearly allied to history , and no people ever cultivated oratory with more indefatigable at tention . The democratical governments of these nations afforded such a scope for the dis- play of eloquence ...
... reason is obvious - Oratory is nearly allied to history , and no people ever cultivated oratory with more indefatigable at tention . The democratical governments of these nations afforded such a scope for the dis- play of eloquence ...
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... reason to believe that he meant the whole to form a connected chain , comprehending the history of the Roman empire from the age of Augustus to his own time . There never was a genius more happily adapted to the writing of history than ...
... reason to believe that he meant the whole to form a connected chain , comprehending the history of the Roman empire from the age of Augustus to his own time . There never was a genius more happily adapted to the writing of history than ...
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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...