Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryB. Law [and others], 1797 - 1120 ページ An extremely popular anthology of prose writings by well-known authors, collected by Vicesimus Knox and first published in 1783. |
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... pleafed them moft . And Xenophon reports , that , night having come on when the people were engaged in an important debate , they were obliged to defer their determination till next day , for fear of confufion , when their hands were to ...
... pleafed them moft . And Xenophon reports , that , night having come on when the people were engaged in an important debate , they were obliged to defer their determination till next day , for fear of confufion , when their hands were to ...
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... pleafed me indeed , that , as it is for your ad- vantage to have your true intereft laid be- fore you , fo I might be affured that he who layeth it before you , would fhare the ad- vantages : for then I had fpoken with greater alacrity ...
... pleafed me indeed , that , as it is for your ad- vantage to have your true intereft laid be- fore you , fo I might be affured that he who layeth it before you , would fhare the ad- vantages : for then I had fpoken with greater alacrity ...
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... pleafed to fa- vour me with fo much attention in this unufual manner of pleading ) how often , I fay , have I seen him , without ufing his pen , and without any labour or study , make a great number of excellent verses on oc- cafional ...
... pleafed to fa- vour me with fo much attention in this unufual manner of pleading ) how often , I fay , have I seen him , without ufing his pen , and without any labour or study , make a great number of excellent verses on oc- cafional ...
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... pleafed with the dull and barbarous verfes of the poets born at Cor- duba . Did our ancestors then confer the free- dom of Rome on him who fung the praifes of her heroes , on a native of Rudia ; and fhall we thrust this Heraclean out of ...
... pleafed with the dull and barbarous verfes of the poets born at Cor- duba . Did our ancestors then confer the free- dom of Rome on him who fung the praifes of her heroes , on a native of Rudia ; and fhall we thrust this Heraclean out of ...
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... pleafed with the dishonourable conduct of a candidate , but are often difgufted with his moft worthy actions . Shall Milo then be fuppofed , on the very day of election , X x be BOOK III . ORATIONS , CHARACTERS , & c . 673 lately at the ...
... pleafed with the dishonourable conduct of a candidate , but are often difgufted with his moft worthy actions . Shall Milo then be fuppofed , on the very day of election , X x be BOOK III . ORATIONS , CHARACTERS , & c . 673 lately at the ...
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698 ページ - Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
933 ページ - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
691 ページ - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
1043 ページ - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
933 ページ - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
1045 ページ - ... ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now, to conclude, " experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," as poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, " we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct ;" however, remember this ; "they that will not be counselled, cannot be helped;" and farther, that "if you will not hear reason,...
1043 ページ - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
886 ページ - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
960 ページ - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
888 ページ - Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.