Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 oldal |
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54. oldal
... DRYDEN . Episodical ornaments , such as descriptions and narratives , were delivered to us from the observations of Aristotle . DRYDEN . He furnished me with all the passages in Aristotle and Horace used to explain the art of poetry by ...
... DRYDEN . Episodical ornaments , such as descriptions and narratives , were delivered to us from the observations of Aristotle . DRYDEN . He furnished me with all the passages in Aristotle and Horace used to explain the art of poetry by ...
55. oldal
... Dryden , are every day mentioned as a na- tional reproach : some of them lived in a state of precarious indigence , and others literally died of hunger . GOLDSMITH : Citizen of the World , Letter LXXXIV . Who can withstand the ...
... Dryden , are every day mentioned as a na- tional reproach : some of them lived in a state of precarious indigence , and others literally died of hunger . GOLDSMITH : Citizen of the World , Letter LXXXIV . Who can withstand the ...
57. oldal
... Dryden or Otway would have done ; and it would be hard to blame him for it . Otway is said to have been choked with a piece of bread which he devoured in the rage of hunger ; and , whether this story be true or false , he was beyond all ...
... Dryden or Otway would have done ; and it would be hard to blame him for it . Otway is said to have been choked with a piece of bread which he devoured in the rage of hunger ; and , whether this story be true or false , he was beyond all ...
61. oldal
... DRYDEN . He who proposes to be an author , should first be a student . DRYDEN . Too much labour often takes away the spirit by adding to the polishing ; so that there re- mains nothing but a dull correctness ; a piece without any ...
... DRYDEN . He who proposes to be an author , should first be a student . DRYDEN . Too much labour often takes away the spirit by adding to the polishing ; so that there re- mains nothing but a dull correctness ; a piece without any ...
62. oldal
... Dryden . Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle . We still read the Dove of Anacreon , and Spar- row of Catullus ; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject . But compositions ...
... Dryden . Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle . We still read the Dove of Anacreon , and Spar- row of Catullus ; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject . But compositions ...
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110. oldal - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
83. oldal - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
467. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
399. oldal - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
32. oldal - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
343. oldal - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
387. oldal - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
82. oldal - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
454. oldal - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
462. oldal - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...