Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsP.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 462 ページ Each of the prefaces and prologues in this volume is a complete work of literature unto itself, offering a unique insight to the thoughts of its author. |
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... seem a good benefice . " " No , forsooth , " said he , “ but I wot well what it shall be worth to me . " Why , " said he , " what shall it be worth ? " " Forsooth , " said he , " if I do my true diligence in the cure of my parishioners ...
... seem a good benefice . " " No , forsooth , " said he , “ but I wot well what it shall be worth to me . " Why , " said he , " what shall it be worth ? " " Forsooth , " said he , " if I do my true diligence in the cure of my parishioners ...
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... seem to those who know that the judgment of many centuries has approved the view that the Earth re- mains fixed as center in the midst of the heavens , if I should , on the contrary , assert that the Earth moves ; I was for a long time ...
... seem to those who know that the judgment of many centuries has approved the view that the Earth re- mains fixed as center in the midst of the heavens , if I should , on the contrary , assert that the Earth moves ; I was for a long time ...
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... seems to me , not as some think , because of a certain selfish reluc- tance to give their views to the world , but in order that the noblest truths , worked out by the careful study of great men , should not be despised by those who are ...
... seems to me , not as some think , because of a certain selfish reluc- tance to give their views to the world , but in order that the noblest truths , worked out by the careful study of great men , should not be despised by those who are ...
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... seem in great part to have solved the apparent movements by calculations which by these eccentrics are made to fit , have nevertheless intro- duced many things which seem to contradict the first prin- ciples of the uniformity of motion ...
... seem in great part to have solved the apparent movements by calculations which by these eccentrics are made to fit , have nevertheless intro- duced many things which seem to contradict the first prin- ciples of the uniformity of motion ...
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... seem strange then to zealous students , if some such people shall ridicule us also . Mathe- matics are written for mathematicians , to whom , if my opin- ion does not deceive me , our labors will seem to contribute something to the ...
... seem strange then to zealous students , if some such people shall ridicule us also . Mathe- matics are written for mathematicians , to whom , if my opin- ion does not deceive me , our labors will seem to contribute something to the ...
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258 ページ - 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; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
258 ページ - 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.
213 ページ - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
224 ページ - ... he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
217 ページ - It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
174 ページ - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
286 ページ - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
318 ページ - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
279 ページ - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
216 ページ - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.