Miscellanies of Literature, Band 1Baudry's European library, 1840 |
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ADAM SMITH amidst amusing Anthony Wood appear artist BOCCACCIO booksellers calamity called celebrity Cicero composed confession Cowley criticism curious delight DESCARTES described discovered DOMENICHINO Dryden Dugald Stewart elegant enthusiasm existence faculty fame fancy fate father favourite feelings formed fortune genius glory habits happiness Harvey heart historian honour Horace Walpole human Hume imagination intellectual invention Johnson knowledge labour learned letters literary character literature lived Lord Lord Byron Madame de Staël MALEBRANCHE meditation melancholy METASTASIO mind Molière MONTESQUIEU muse Nash nature never observed opinions painter passed passion PERCIVAL STOCKDALE perpetual PETRARCH philosopher poem poet poetical poetry political Pope preserved principle Prynne published pursuits racter ridicule says secret seems Sir WILLIAM JONES society solitary solitude spirit studies talents taste thought tion Toland truth verse Voltaire volume writing written wrote young youth
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Seite 298 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Seite 368 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Seite 32 - I saw it was adulterate. I met with several great persons, whom I liked very well, but could not perceive that any part of their greatness was to be liked or desired, no more than I would be glad or content to be in a storm, though I saw many ships which rid safely and bravely in it. A storm would not agree with my stomach...
Seite 276 - I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour: my name, which had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England ; if false, England was unfit for me.
Seite 213 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Seite 279 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight...
Seite 383 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Seite 318 - He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task : the silence of the night invited him to pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that his work was done.
Seite 102 - It was then that TOM NASH, whom I am about to introduce to the reader's more familiar acquaintance, the most exquisite banterer of that age of genius, turned on them their own weapons, and annihilated them into silence when they found themselves paid in their own base coin. He rebounded their popular ribaldry on themselves, with such replies as " Pap with a hatchet, or a fig for my godson ; or,.