The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... wise so plain and obvious , that they will scarce think it deserves the labour of argumentation . Let us first consider the ambitious ; and those , both in their progress to greatness , and after the attaining of it . There is nothing ...
... wise so plain and obvious , that they will scarce think it deserves the labour of argumentation . Let us first consider the ambitious ; and those , both in their progress to greatness , and after the attaining of it . There is nothing ...
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... wise , most worthy , most happy , and the greatest of all mankind . His meaning , no doubt , was this , that he found more satisfaction to his mind ; too often disfigures it , not only by conceits , but by num- bers so very loose , as ...
... wise , most worthy , most happy , and the greatest of all mankind . His meaning , no doubt , was this , that he found more satisfaction to his mind ; too often disfigures it , not only by conceits , but by num- bers so very loose , as ...
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... wise ! The first minister of state has not so much busi- ness in public , as a wise man has in private : if the one have little leisure to be alone , the other has less leisure to be in company ; the one has but part of the affairs of ...
... wise ! The first minister of state has not so much busi- ness in public , as a wise man has in private : if the one have little leisure to be alone , the other has less leisure to be in company ; the one has but part of the affairs of ...
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... wise man tremble to think of . Now , as for being known much by sight , and pointed at , I cannot compre- hend the honour that lies in that : whatsoever it be , every mountebank has it more than the best doctor , and the hangman more ...
... wise man tremble to think of . Now , as for being known much by sight , and pointed at , I cannot compre- hend the honour that lies in that : whatsoever it be , every mountebank has it more than the best doctor , and the hangman more ...
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... wise nature needs ; Whom the just earth with easy plenty feeds ! " Tis true , no morning tide of clients comes , And fills the painted channels of his rooms , Adoring the rich figures , as they pass , In tapestry wrought , or cut in ...
... wise nature needs ; Whom the just earth with easy plenty feeds ! " Tis true , no morning tide of clients comes , And fills the painted channels of his rooms , Adoring the rich figures , as they pass , In tapestry wrought , or cut in ...
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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
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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.