Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, 1. kötetPhillips, 1808 |
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... nature , holds the first rank among narrative compositions . Voyages and travels may be considered as the next in consequence ; and to . those fictitious narratives , composed chiefly for entertainment , under NARRATION . 11.
... nature , holds the first rank among narrative compositions . Voyages and travels may be considered as the next in consequence ; and to . those fictitious narratives , composed chiefly for entertainment , under NARRATION . 11.
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... considered as a history limited to a short pe- riod ; but in whatever light it is regarded , no- thing can be more interesting , pleasant , and entertaining . It afforded , undoubtedly , the model for Cæsar's Commentaries , but is a ...
... considered as a history limited to a short pe- riod ; but in whatever light it is regarded , no- thing can be more interesting , pleasant , and entertaining . It afforded , undoubtedly , the model for Cæsar's Commentaries , but is a ...
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... considered as a gene- ral historian , since his subject is confined to the civil wars in the reign of Charles I. and II . Clarendon's history is , however , in all senses of the word , a great work . In style and conduct it comes nearer ...
... considered as a gene- ral historian , since his subject is confined to the civil wars in the reign of Charles I. and II . Clarendon's history is , however , in all senses of the word , a great work . In style and conduct it comes nearer ...
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... considered as a repository of the serious wit of Greece . How he was able to collect those aphorisms is matter of wonder ; and I can only suppose that he extracted them from some older collection of lives and chro- nicles , now probably ...
... considered as a repository of the serious wit of Greece . How he was able to collect those aphorisms is matter of wonder ; and I can only suppose that he extracted them from some older collection of lives and chro- nicles , now probably ...
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Addressed to His Son George Gregory. perors of Rome , may be considered either as an historian or biographer . Properly I think the latter , for he relates much of their private lives and transactions . His work is a most valuable ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. perors of Rome , may be considered either as an historian or biographer . Properly I think the latter , for he relates much of their private lives and transactions . His work is a most valuable ...
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65. oldal - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
167. oldal - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
90. oldal - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
105. oldal - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
166. oldal - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
57. oldal - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
166. oldal - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
168. oldal - Csesar with a senate at his heels. In Parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others...
167. oldal - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
195. oldal - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...