Noctes Atticæ, or Reveries in a garret; containing observations on men and books |
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... feel amply remu- nerated for his pains and time . N.B. Aulus Gellius , * from whom he has taken the title to these volumes , very modestly informs his readers , that his essays were not written in Attica , and that he did not presume on ...
... feel amply remu- nerated for his pains and time . N.B. Aulus Gellius , * from whom he has taken the title to these volumes , very modestly informs his readers , that his essays were not written in Attica , and that he did not presume on ...
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... feel , when , in wandering through a wilderness or a grove , we suddenly should behold , in the turning of a walk , the statue of some muse or virtue . " - Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope : Of all the many eulogiums on the ...
... feel , when , in wandering through a wilderness or a grove , we suddenly should behold , in the turning of a walk , the statue of some muse or virtue . " - Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope : Of all the many eulogiums on the ...
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... feel the pulse of your admirable genius . " Is it not ( exclaims here the author ) excellent that Don Lorenzo should be delighted to hear himself praised by Don Quixote , whom he looked upon as a madman ? O force of flattery , how far ...
... feel the pulse of your admirable genius . " Is it not ( exclaims here the author ) excellent that Don Lorenzo should be delighted to hear himself praised by Don Quixote , whom he looked upon as a madman ? O force of flattery , how far ...
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... feel a dislike to our benefactors . Seneca says , with his peculiar mode of expression , a small sum borrowed makes a man a debtor ; a large renders him an enemy to the creditor . Modern ethics are more liberal on the score of ...
... feel a dislike to our benefactors . Seneca says , with his peculiar mode of expression , a small sum borrowed makes a man a debtor ; a large renders him an enemy to the creditor . Modern ethics are more liberal on the score of ...
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... feel the solemn sound , & c . Burying in Churches . So early as the times of our Anglo - Saxon an- cestors , this abominable practice was complained of , as hurtful to the services of the church . The inconveniences of this ancient ...
... feel the solemn sound , & c . Burying in Churches . So early as the times of our Anglo - Saxon an- cestors , this abominable practice was complained of , as hurtful to the services of the church . The inconveniences of this ancient ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admire Æsop amusing ancient anecdote Aristotle bard beauty Cæsar called censure character Cicero common composition critic David Hume described disputes Don Quixote dull elegant eminent endeavoured English Essay Euripides excellent fancy favourite fool French genius Gothic Architecture Greek Greek language happiness hero historian honour Hudibras humour idle IMITATED ingenious intellect John Locke Johnson Julius Cæsar ladies language learned letters lines lively Lord Lord Monboddo lover matter Milton mind mode modern moral nature never observed opinion orator passage passion perhaps persons philosopher Plato Platonic Love pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry Pope powers praise pride prose Quintilian racter reader reason rhyme ridicule Roman satire says scene scholar seems sense sentiments Shakespeare shew singular speak style Tacitus talents taste Theocritus things thought truth virtue Voltaire whilst wise wish words writer young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 96 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Seite 153 - FRIENDS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Seite 21 - Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home; Fear, pity, justice, indignation start, Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart ; Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne.
Seite 28 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Seite 45 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Seite 129 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Seite 153 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Seite 5 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Seite 68 - In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due! yet all his good...
Seite 38 - Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to show with how small pain The sores of faith are cured again; Although by woeful proof we find They always leave a scar behind.