 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.— Burnc. CXX. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracts...that make every thing about them clear and beautiful. — Mdison. CXXI. Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig it... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 páginas
...melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. — Hume. cxx. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracts...that make every thing about them clear and beautiful. — Addison. cxxi. Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 666 páginas
...rhetoric was Used by the most ancient nations, because it ¡well fitted to express an elevated stau < ¡' feeling, and, at the same time, to give somewhat of...of novelty to ideas at once common and important. Addix-n truly says, "Allegories, when well chosen. are like so many tracts of light in a ilicourse,... | |
 | 1834 - 192 páginas
...than the passages which are to be explained. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make every thing about them clear and beautiful. A noble metaphor, when it is placed to advantage, casts a kind of glory round it, and darts a lustre... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 496 páginas
...Lessing, in his Nathan the Wise. Allegory in rhetoric was used by the most ancient nations, because it is well fitted to express an elevated state of...Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracts o? light in a discourse, tlmt make every thing about them clear and beautiful. In painting and sculpture,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 páginas
...than the passages which are to be explained. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make every thing about them clear and beautiful. A noble metaphor, when it is placed to an advantage, casts a kind of glory round it, and darts a lustre... | |
 | 1841 - 956 páginas
...Lessing, in his Nathan the Wise. Allegory in rhetoric was used by the most ancient nations, because it is well fitted to express an elevated state of feeling, and, at l he same time, to give somewhat of the charm of novelty to ideas at once common and important. Addison... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 páginas
...Lessing, in his Nathan the Wise. Allegory in rhetoric was used by the most ancient nations, because it is well fitted to express an elevated state of...feeling, and, at the same time, to give somewhat of the cliann of novelty to ideas at once common and important. Addison truly says, " Allegories, when well... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 páginas
...b. Ho is the best accountant who can cast up correctly tho sum of his own errors. — NEVINS. CS c. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracts...that make every thing about them clear and beautiful. — ADDISON. CS rf. A firm faith is the best divinity ; a good life, the best philosophy ; a clear... | |
 | Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī - 1852 - 308 páginas
...FABLES OF PILPAY. Jhraratrs THOMAS D. SCOTT. " Allegories, when well chosen, are lite so many Tracks of Light in a Discourse, that make every thing about them clear and beautiful." — ADDISOK. JLoirtf on ; E. LUMLEY, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, BLOOMSBUEY 8QUABE. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY... | |
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Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make every thing about them clear and beautiful. A noble metaphor, when it is placed to an advantage, casts a kind of glory round it, and darts a lustre through a whole... 
