Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Zväzok 1Phillips, 1808 |
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... produces his authority . Mr. Hume , whose classical erudition I have on a former occasion presumed to question , asserts that the " first page of Thucidydes is the com- mencement of real history ; " but if we were HISTORY . 23.
... produces his authority . Mr. Hume , whose classical erudition I have on a former occasion presumed to question , asserts that the " first page of Thucidydes is the com- mencement of real history ; " but if we were HISTORY . 23.
Strana 28
... former , but his subject is Roman ; and his long residence at Rome , and his intimacy with Scipio and Lælius , almost naturalized him to that part of the world . Had his intention been completed , he would have ranked among general ...
... former , but his subject is Roman ; and his long residence at Rome , and his intimacy with Scipio and Lælius , almost naturalized him to that part of the world . Had his intention been completed , he would have ranked among general ...
Strana 42
... former , however , was the more antient ap- pellation , for Tacitus entitles the earlier por- tion of his incomparable history annales , and the word chronicle , I do not find to have come into use till the middle ages , or rather later ...
... former , however , was the more antient ap- pellation , for Tacitus entitles the earlier por- tion of his incomparable history annales , and the word chronicle , I do not find to have come into use till the middle ages , or rather later ...
Strana 46
... former will class with laboured and arti- ficial compositions , and will admit of any de- gree of polish ; but in general the style should be easy and familiar . The antients called these compositions by the name of comment- aries , and ...
... former will class with laboured and arti- ficial compositions , and will admit of any de- gree of polish ; but in general the style should be easy and familiar . The antients called these compositions by the name of comment- aries , and ...
Strana 69
... former in his spells , but the knight , through the assistance of his tutelary saint , and his mistress , is always ultimately victorious . I do not pretend to be conversant in this antiquated branch of reading . You will find the names ...
... former in his spells , but the knight , through the assistance of his tutelary saint , and his mistress , is always ultimately victorious . I do not pretend to be conversant in this antiquated branch of reading . You will find the names ...
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Strana 65 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Strana 167 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Strana 90 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Strana 105 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Strana 166 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Strana 57 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Strana 166 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Strana 168 - Csesar with a senate at his heels. In Parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others...
Strana 167 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
Strana 195 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...