A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 28
Стр. 25
... grow , So far the root sinks down to hell below . Another horrible disgrace to greatness is , that it is for the most part in pitiful want and distress : what a wonderful thing is this ? Unless it degene- rate into avarice , and so ...
... grow , So far the root sinks down to hell below . Another horrible disgrace to greatness is , that it is for the most part in pitiful want and distress : what a wonderful thing is this ? Unless it degene- rate into avarice , and so ...
Стр. 30
... grows amidst the corn . The halcyon sleep will never build her nest In any stormy breast ; ' Tis not enough that she does find Clouds and darkness in their mind ; Darkness but half her work will do : ' Tis not enough , she must find ...
... grows amidst the corn . The halcyon sleep will never build her nest In any stormy breast ; ' Tis not enough that she does find Clouds and darkness in their mind ; Darkness but half her work will do : ' Tis not enough , she must find ...
Стр. 44
... grow still pro- portionably . But how this love came to be produced in me so early is a hard question . I believe I can tell the particular little chance that * ille potens suî , Lætusque deget , cui licet in diem Dixisse , vixi ; cras ...
... grow still pro- portionably . But how this love came to be produced in me so early is a hard question . I believe I can tell the particular little chance that * ille potens suî , Lætusque deget , cui licet in diem Dixisse , vixi ; cras ...
Стр. 124
... collected spirit . If it be not itself a virtue , it is at least the soil in which the virtues naturally grow , and the most visible mark whereby to know those who are vir- tuous . This is that which distinguishes a man from 124.
... collected spirit . If it be not itself a virtue , it is at least the soil in which the virtues naturally grow , and the most visible mark whereby to know those who are vir- tuous . This is that which distinguishes a man from 124.
Стр. 129
... grow learned by other men's thoughts , yet he will grow wise or happy only by his own ; the use of other men's towards these ends , is but to serve for our own reflections , otherwise they are but like meat swallowed down for pleasure ...
... grow learned by other men's thoughts , yet he will grow wise or happy only by his own ; the use of other men's towards these ends , is but to serve for our own reflections , otherwise they are but like meat swallowed down for pleasure ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
à corps perdu actions admirable advantage affections agreeable antient beauty Beelzebub Ben Jonson better body born for love Cæsar called cern chuse common compass courage Cowley danger death deceive defects delight disposition divine Domitian envy Epicurus ESSAY esteem evil excellent fancy fear force fortune friends genius happy honour Horace human humour imagination industry judgment Julius Cæsar kind laws less liberty live look Lord Bacon Lord Clarendon Lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind mean ment mind miscellany mour nation nature ness never object observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons philosophers pleasure poetry poets praise princes reason rience Seneca the elder Septimus Severus shew Sir William Temple sort spirit suspicions taste temper thing thought tion true truth turn vanity verses Virgil virtue wisdom wise wonder writing youth
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Стр. 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Стр. 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Стр. 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Стр. 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Стр. 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Стр. 16 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Стр. 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Стр. 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Стр. 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.