Cambridge Essays, Volume 1John W. Parker and son, 1856 |
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... representing a knowing old monkey sitting quietly at the bottom of a tree , up which his more thoughtless and impetuous comrades clambered with such vehemence that all the apples left the boughs and became the prize of the gentleman at ...
... representing a knowing old monkey sitting quietly at the bottom of a tree , up which his more thoughtless and impetuous comrades clambered with such vehemence that all the apples left the boughs and became the prize of the gentleman at ...
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... he had regaled the provinces . ' 6 The piece represented - a one - act farce , called the Docteur Amoureux - has not come down to us , much to Boileau's regret , the very dust of Molière's writings being precious as gold.
... he had regaled the provinces . ' 6 The piece represented - a one - act farce , called the Docteur Amoureux - has not come down to us , much to Boileau's regret , the very dust of Molière's writings being precious as gold.
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... It is curious that M. Bazin , with all his horror of crazy hypotheses , should have ventured to countenance an ugly and loathsome Calumnies on Molière's Marriage . 21 slander , which represented 20 The Life and Genius of Molière .
... It is curious that M. Bazin , with all his horror of crazy hypotheses , should have ventured to countenance an ugly and loathsome Calumnies on Molière's Marriage . 21 slander , which represented 20 The Life and Genius of Molière .
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Calumnies on Molière's Marriage . 21 slander , which represented Molière's wife to be the daughter , and not the sister , of Molière's mistress . This gratuitous con- cession to the pertinacious importunities of calumny is unworthy of ...
Calumnies on Molière's Marriage . 21 slander , which represented Molière's wife to be the daughter , and not the sister , of Molière's mistress . This gratuitous con- cession to the pertinacious importunities of calumny is unworthy of ...
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... represented ) was either acted with great applause , or read , at Fontainebleau ( in the presence , and with the approval , of the Papal legate ) , at Villars Cotteret , where Louis was a guest of his brother , and at Raincy ' chez le ...
... represented ) was either acted with great applause , or read , at Fontainebleau ( in the presence , and with the approval , of the Papal legate ) , at Villars Cotteret , where Louis was a guest of his brother , and at Raincy ' chez le ...
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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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