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... Friend 3. His two Goldfinches . 4. Occupations of Life before the Flood 5. Public and Private Education 6. Johnson's Lives of the Poets XLV . EDWARD GIBBON . 1737-1794 : PAGE 208 209 211 212 · 213 214 . 217 220 I. The Age of the ...
... Friend 3. His two Goldfinches . 4. Occupations of Life before the Flood 5. Public and Private Education 6. Johnson's Lives of the Poets XLV . EDWARD GIBBON . 1737-1794 : PAGE 208 209 211 212 · 213 214 . 217 220 I. The Age of the ...
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... friend of the wits and men of letters of the day . He suffered through life from physical infirmity and constant ill - health . He died in 1744 . VOL . II . B Pope was confessedly the most eminent poet of his age 1688-1744 ALEXANDER POPE.
... friend of the wits and men of letters of the day . He suffered through life from physical infirmity and constant ill - health . He died in 1744 . VOL . II . B Pope was confessedly the most eminent poet of his age 1688-1744 ALEXANDER POPE.
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... friends and enemies : but the true reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the consideration how short a time they , and I , have to live one may be ashamed to consume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together ...
... friends and enemies : but the true reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the consideration how short a time they , and I , have to live one may be ashamed to consume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together ...
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... friendship to comply with a friend's motions and inclinations , he possesses this in an eminent degree ; he lies down ... friends , but I will not insist upon many of them , because it is possible some may be almost as fabulous as those ...
... friendship to comply with a friend's motions and inclinations , he possesses this in an eminent degree ; he lies down ... friends , but I will not insist upon many of them , because it is possible some may be almost as fabulous as those ...
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... friends , and ev'n his Queen unknown ; Chang'd as he was , with age , and toils , and cares Furrow'd his rev'rend face , and white his hairs , In his own palace forc'd to ask his bread , Scorn'd by those slaves his former bounty fed ...
... friends , and ev'n his Queen unknown ; Chang'd as he was , with age , and toils , and cares Furrow'd his rev'rend face , and white his hairs , In his own palace forc'd to ask his bread , Scorn'd by those slaves his former bounty fed ...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors, with Introductory Notices ... English Authors Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Seite 454 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Seite 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Seite 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Seite 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Seite 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Seite 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Seite 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Seite 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.