The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition... The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff - Página 295por Tatler - 1754Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 páginas
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the "Mural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed Her with hopes of immortality and... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
| George Douglas Tallman, Author of Tom's wife - 1878 - 284 páginas
...passages as represent human nature in its proper dignity. The finest writers of antiquity have taken it on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest t w raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
| 1888 - 498 páginas
...very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 250 páginas
...have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of...perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods... | |
| Gustav Gottheil - 1896 - 504 páginas
...skillful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors in antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
| George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 439 páginas
...very mean : a skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 534 páginas
...great and very mean : a skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous...side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they... | |
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