The Original, Issues 1-29H. Renshaw., 1835 - 444 pages |
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... sort of schoolboy translation , though not without merit , of Plutarch's Life of Numa Pompilius , published under Dryden's name . In point of matter it is to me of exquisite sweetness and beauty , surpassing anything I am acquainted ...
... sort of schoolboy translation , though not without merit , of Plutarch's Life of Numa Pompilius , published under Dryden's name . In point of matter it is to me of exquisite sweetness and beauty , surpassing anything I am acquainted ...
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... sort of satanic envy and dislike of superiority , which makes many turn away from the contemplation of what is good and great - but let us hope for better times . LIFE OF NUMA . Numa was endued with a soul rarely tempered by nature and ...
... sort of satanic envy and dislike of superiority , which makes many turn away from the contemplation of what is good and great - but let us hope for better times . LIFE OF NUMA . Numa was endued with a soul rarely tempered by nature and ...
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... sort of force ; but by mere dint of wisdom and justice brought every one to concur entirely with him , and settled a perfect harmony among them . GOVERNMENT . In these our days , we travel from London to York , with great rapidity , in ...
... sort of force ; but by mere dint of wisdom and justice brought every one to concur entirely with him , and settled a perfect harmony among them . GOVERNMENT . In these our days , we travel from London to York , with great rapidity , in ...
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... sort of club . A point of union amongst different classes having a common interest , must be advantageous to all , especially in the communication of information and the pro- motion of mutual good - will ; and such institutions would be ...
... sort of club . A point of union amongst different classes having a common interest , must be advantageous to all , especially in the communication of information and the pro- motion of mutual good - will ; and such institutions would be ...
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... sort of life that affords . so many branches of praise to a panegyrist : -the utility to a man's self ; the usefulness or rather necessity of it to all the rest of mankind ; the innocence , the pleasure , the antiquity , the dignity ...
... sort of life that affords . so many branches of praise to a panegyrist : -the utility to a man's self ; the usefulness or rather necessity of it to all the rest of mankind ; the innocence , the pleasure , the antiquity , the dignity ...
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Page 437 - No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish...
Page 54 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Page 355 - See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
Page 355 - tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head ; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp ; her- eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night.
Page 354 - Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 27 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 27 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 437 - Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 156 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 130 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.