Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryB. Law [and others], 1797 - 1120 Seiten An extremely popular anthology of prose writings by well-known authors, collected by Vicesimus Knox and first published in 1783. |
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... Poet Archias . THE ARGUMENT . A. Licinius Archias was a native of An- tioch , and a very celebrated poet . He came to Rome when Cicero was about five years old , and was courted by men of the greatest eminence in it , on account of his ...
... Poet Archias . THE ARGUMENT . A. Licinius Archias was a native of An- tioch , and a very celebrated poet . He came to Rome when Cicero was about five years old , and was courted by men of the greatest eminence in it , on account of his ...
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... poet ; and the other , befides his memorable actions , was both a judge and a lover of poetry . Though he had not yet reached his feventeenth year , yet no fooner was he arrived than the Lu- culi took him into their family ; which , as ...
... poet ; and the other , befides his memorable actions , was both a judge and a lover of poetry . Though he had not yet reached his feventeenth year , yet no fooner was he arrived than the Lu- culi took him into their family ; which , as ...
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... poet is formed by the plaftic hand of nature her felf , is quickened by the native fire of genius , and animated as it were by a kind of divine enthufiafm . It is with justice , therefore , that our Ennius bestows upon poets the epithet ...
... poet is formed by the plaftic hand of nature her felf , is quickened by the native fire of genius , and animated as it were by a kind of divine enthufiafm . It is with justice , therefore , that our Ennius bestows upon poets the epithet ...
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... poet worthy of fome reward , not have been fond of the ge- nius , the fpirit , and eloquence of Archias ? Could our poet , neither by his own in- tereft , nor that of the Luculli , have ob- tained from his intimate friend Q. Metel- lus ...
... poet worthy of fome reward , not have been fond of the ge- nius , the fpirit , and eloquence of Archias ? Could our poet , neither by his own in- tereft , nor that of the Luculli , have ob- tained from his intimate friend Q. Metel- lus ...
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... poet to deck off a history with the charms of verfe , where the opinion of exploits muft fuffer by a ftrict relation . Every fea hath been opened by our fleets , and every land been penetrated by our armies , which have every where left ...
... poet to deck off a history with the charms of verfe , where the opinion of exploits muft fuffer by a ftrict relation . Every fea hath been opened by our fleets , and every land been penetrated by our armies , which have every where left ...
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Seite 698 - Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
Seite 933 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Seite 691 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Seite 1043 - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Seite 933 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Seite 1045 - ... ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now, to conclude, " experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," as poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, " we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct ;" however, remember this ; "they that will not be counselled, cannot be helped;" and farther, that "if you will not hear reason,...
Seite 1043 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
Seite 886 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Seite 960 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Seite 888 - Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.