Cambridge Essays, Volume 1John W. Parker and son, 1856 |
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... perhaps , yet colder and graver than usual , for he was on the eve of leaving Paris on an errand of which the ostensible object , to compass a marriage , would only serve more effectually to frustrate an object yet dearer the ...
... perhaps , yet colder and graver than usual , for he was on the eve of leaving Paris on an errand of which the ostensible object , to compass a marriage , would only serve more effectually to frustrate an object yet dearer the ...
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... scene from which the play takes its name ) is perhaps the most charming in all Molière's works . * Notes Historiques sur la vie de Molière , p . 53 . The Précieuses Ridicules an Epoch in Comedy . 13 We 12 The Life and Genius of Molière .
... scene from which the play takes its name ) is perhaps the most charming in all Molière's works . * Notes Historiques sur la vie de Molière , p . 53 . The Précieuses Ridicules an Epoch in Comedy . 13 We 12 The Life and Genius of Molière .
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... Perhaps the best criticism ever passed upon Voiture was the remark of a girl of twelve years of age , Mademoiselle de Bourbon , who said she thought " qu'il fallait le conserver dans du sucre . " Chapelain and Conrart , or even De Retz ...
... Perhaps the best criticism ever passed upon Voiture was the remark of a girl of twelve years of age , Mademoiselle de Bourbon , who said she thought " qu'il fallait le conserver dans du sucre . " Chapelain and Conrart , or even De Retz ...
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... Perhaps the name last mentioned may inspire some one with the audacity to reply in the affirmative . The authoress of the Grand Cyrus and the Clélie has been the object of such withering contempt , especially from those who would feel ...
... Perhaps the name last mentioned may inspire some one with the audacity to reply in the affirmative . The authoress of the Grand Cyrus and the Clélie has been the object of such withering contempt , especially from those who would feel ...
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... Perhaps it may be worth mentioning , that the only free- born girl ( the rest are foundlings , slaves , or worse ) whom Plautus has introduced upon the stage , may be considered a Roman précieuse ridicule . ' We suppose Plautus found it ...
... Perhaps it may be worth mentioning , that the only free- born girl ( the rest are foundlings , slaves , or worse ) whom Plautus has introduced upon the stage , may be considered a Roman précieuse ridicule . ' We suppose Plautus found it ...
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Page 41 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 248 - And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset ; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 262 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
Page 226 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 179 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 279 - Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive...
Page 246 - The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 254 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 178 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er? "No — shall the good want health, the good want power?" Add health and power, and every earthly thing, "Why bounded power? why private? why no king?
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