The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... instance ( though there be thousand of examples for the same thing ) ; give me leave to transcribe the character which Cicero * gives of this noble slave , because it is a general description of all ambitious men , and which Ma- chiavel ...
... instance ( though there be thousand of examples for the same thing ) ; give me leave to transcribe the character which Cicero * gives of this noble slave , because it is a general description of all ambitious men , and which Ma- chiavel ...
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... instance in one delight more , the most natural and best natured of all others , a per- petual companion of the husbandman ; and that is , the satisfaction of looking round about him , and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements ...
... instance in one delight more , the most natural and best natured of all others , a per- petual companion of the husbandman ; and that is , the satisfaction of looking round about him , and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements ...
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... instances , if here I add no more ; They are enough to reach at least a mile Beyond long orator Fabius's style . But , hold , ye , whom no fortune e'er endears , Gentlemen , malecontents , and mutineers , • -as it does them . ] This ...
... instances , if here I add no more ; They are enough to reach at least a mile Beyond long orator Fabius's style . But , hold , ye , whom no fortune e'er endears , Gentlemen , malecontents , and mutineers , • -as it does them . ] This ...
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... instance in the parti- culars of all his wickedness ; but to sum up a part of it briefly : What can be more extraordinarily wicked , than for a person , such as yourself qualify him rightly , to endeavour not only to exalt himself above ...
... instance in the parti- culars of all his wickedness ; but to sum up a part of it briefly : What can be more extraordinarily wicked , than for a person , such as yourself qualify him rightly , to endeavour not only to exalt himself above ...
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... instance in one that he put in practice , and another that he attempted , but was frighted from the execution ( even he ) by the infamy of it . That which he put in practice was decimation ; which was the most impudent breach of all ...
... instance in one that he put in practice , and another that he attempted , but was frighted from the execution ( even he ) by the infamy of it . That which he put in practice was decimation ; which was the most impudent breach of all ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afford agreeable allow ambition appear avarice beauty better betwixt character Cicero Columella consider death degree delight discover dost dress earth effect envy Epicurus EPIG esteem ev'n fame fancy favour fear fool fortune friends garden genius gentleman give happiness highwayman honour Horace human imagination Incitatus instance justice of peace kind king latter least LENOX LIBRARY less liberty live lord lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind manner means ment merit methinks mind nation nature never objects observed occasion one's Ovid passions perhaps person Pindaric pleased pleasure plebeian poet poetry princes proper quire racter reason regard rich Sallust Sapere aude seems sense sometimes sort style superior suppose sure taste thee things thou thought tion trees Triarii truth tyrant Urim and Thummim vanity Varro verse Virg Virgil virtue vulgar whole wise wonder word writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Seite 116 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Seite 121 - Even when I was a very young Boy at School, instead of running about on Holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with some one Companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Seite 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Seite 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Seite 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Seite 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.