Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, 第 2 巻B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 ページ |
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... fatire on the prince , efpecially while Antony lived ; among the fycophants of whofe court it was fashionable to infult his memory , by all the methods of ca- lumny that wit and malice could invent : nay , Virgil , on an occafion that ...
... fatire on the prince , efpecially while Antony lived ; among the fycophants of whofe court it was fashionable to infult his memory , by all the methods of ca- lumny that wit and malice could invent : nay , Virgil , on an occafion that ...
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... fatire and panegyric . And the factions which began in his time , being ftill continued , have made his character be as much difputed to this day , as is commonly that of princes who are our contemporaries . Many virtues , however , it ...
... fatire and panegyric . And the factions which began in his time , being ftill continued , have made his character be as much difputed to this day , as is commonly that of princes who are our contemporaries . Many virtues , however , it ...
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... fatire , of which many felt , and all fear- ed the fmart . It must be owned that he was the most irritable of all the genus irri- tabile vatum , offended with trifles , and ne- ver forgetting or forgiving them ; but in this I really ...
... fatire , of which many felt , and all fear- ed the fmart . It must be owned that he was the most irritable of all the genus irri- tabile vatum , offended with trifles , and ne- ver forgetting or forgiving them ; but in this I really ...
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... fatire , but fatire does not conftitute wit , as many imagine . A man of wit ought to find a thousand better occafions of thewing it . Abflain , therefore , moit carefully from fatire ; which , though it fall on no particu lar perfon in ...
... fatire , but fatire does not conftitute wit , as many imagine . A man of wit ought to find a thousand better occafions of thewing it . Abflain , therefore , moit carefully from fatire ; which , though it fall on no particu lar perfon in ...
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... fatire . A dunghill was feen within the space of one night to be covered all over with mush- rooms : this fome interpreted to promise the infant great fertility of fancy , but no long duration to his works ; but the father was of ...
... fatire . A dunghill was feen within the space of one night to be covered all over with mush- rooms : this fome interpreted to promise the infant great fertility of fancy , but no long duration to his works ; but the father was of ...
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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...
791 ページ - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
1041 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...
884 ページ - ... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
698 ページ - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
791 ページ - Scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will shew it thee to-morrow: In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort, said my uncle Toby, that God Almighty is so good and just a governor of the world, that if we have but done our duties in it, — it will never be enquired into, whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one: I hope not; said the corporal But go on, Trim, said my uncle Toby, with thy story.
842 ページ - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
698 ページ - 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.
789 ページ - I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby : and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, — and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more, if they will do him good. Though I am persuaded...
1022 ページ - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.