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... governments , policies , and laws . The marvellous story of humanity is enacted
again for our edification , instruction , and delight . We behold civilizations begin ,
struggle , triumph , and decay , giving place to higher and nobler as they pass ...
... governments , policies , and laws . The marvellous story of humanity is enacted
again for our edification , instruction , and delight . We behold civilizations begin ,
struggle , triumph , and decay , giving place to higher and nobler as they pass ...
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... given their contribution to the development of the race , added their quota to
the progress of man , and then behold them pass away , giving place to a higher
state , to nobler aspirations , to purer morals , loftier faiths , and sweeter manners
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... given their contribution to the development of the race , added their quota to
the progress of man , and then behold them pass away , giving place to a higher
state , to nobler aspirations , to purer morals , loftier faiths , and sweeter manners
.
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Then through the long eras of massive vegetation , and beings of monstrous bulk
, which appear , fulfil their mission , and pass away , but with their trunks and
bones help to make the world they quit ready for the era of more perfect forms
and ...
Then through the long eras of massive vegetation , and beings of monstrous bulk
, which appear , fulfil their mission , and pass away , but with their trunks and
bones help to make the world they quit ready for the era of more perfect forms
and ...
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... and all its wondrous forms of life , will pass away and be no more . With the
seeds of life are everywhere mixed the seeds of death : destruction waits upon
the steps of creation , and “ Worlds on worlds are rolling ever , From creation to
decay ...
... and all its wondrous forms of life , will pass away and be no more . With the
seeds of life are everywhere mixed the seeds of death : destruction waits upon
the steps of creation , and “ Worlds on worlds are rolling ever , From creation to
decay ...
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However bright your hopes they will add a ray of splendour which will increase
their brightness ; beneath the benign influence of their wisdom fears will diminish
or pass away altogether ; they will supply you with strength to battle with and ...
However bright your hopes they will add a ray of splendour which will increase
their brightness ; beneath the benign influence of their wisdom fears will diminish
or pass away altogether ; they will supply you with strength to battle with and ...
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Seite 98 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Seite 62 - SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Seite 142 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Seite 56 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 86 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Seite 73 - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Seite 61 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn. And broils root out the work of masonry.
Seite 64 - Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entomb'd in men's eyes shall lie.
Seite 132 - In Santa Croce's holy precincts lie (*) Ashes which make it holier, dust which is Even in itself an immortality, Though there were nothing save the past, and this The particle of those sublimities Which have relapsed to chaos : — here repose Angelo's, Alfieri's bones, and his, (*) The starry Galileo, with his woes ; Here Machiavelli's earth return'd to whence it rose.
Seite 122 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
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| Titel | The praise of books, as said and sung by English authors, selected by J. A. Langford |
| Autor/in | English authors |
| Herausgeber | John Alfred Langford |
| Veröffentlicht | 1880 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 31. Juli 2006 |
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