Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau in EnglandE. Nash, 1908 - 292 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted admiration afterwards anecdote appeared arrived Baron de Montesquieu Bolingbroke Brède Calais Charlemont Charles Yorke Chesterfield Christophe de Beaumont Conway correspondence Court D'Alembert dated Davenport doubt edit Emile England English Epic Poetry Essay Euvres Complètes expression favour France French gentleman Henriade honour Horace Walpole Hume's interesting j'ai King knew La Brède Laboulaye Lady language letter to Madame letter to Thieriot Lettres Philosophiques liberty literary live London Chronicle Lord Keith Louis XIV Madame de Boufflers Martin Folkes Memoirs Montesquieu never Newton Notes sur l'Angleterre observes Œuvres Paris Pensées Diverses pension Persian Letters Peyrou philosopher poem poet poetry politics Pope printed probably published qu'il Queen received reference religion remarks replied residence Rousseau says Siècle de Louis Spalding speak tells Thérèse thought tion told translation verses viii Voltaire Voltaire's Waldegrave Walpole's Wandsworth Wooton writings written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 166 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Seite 133 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 88 - N'alléguez point ces nœuds que le crime a rompus, Ces dieux qu'il outragea, ces droits qu'il a perdus. Nous avons fait, Arons, en lui rendant hommage, Serment...
Seite 25 - Milton's page With Sin and Death provok'd thy rage, Thy rage provok'd, who sooth'd with gentle rhymes 1 " By ' Dorset Downs' he probably meant Mr. Dodington's seat. In Pitt's Poems is ' An Epistle to Dr. Edward Young, at Eastbury in Dorsetshire, on the Review at Sarum, 1722.
Seite 171 - A friend to mankind, he asserted their undoubted and inalienable rights with freedom, even in his own country, whose prejudices in matters of religion and government he had long lamented, and endeavoured, not without some success, to remove. He well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country, where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny, and liberty from licentiousness. His works will illustrate his name, and survive him as long as right reason, moral obligation,...
Seite 62 - He consulted Dr. Young about his Essay in English, and begged him to correct any gross faults he might find in it. The Doctor set very honestly to work, marked the passages most liable to censure ; and when he went to explain himself about them, Voltaire could not avoid bursting out a-laughing in his face.
Seite 117 - L'étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n'ayant jamais eu de chagrin qu'une heure de lecture n'ait dissipé.
Seite 212 - Etats vous offrent une retraite paisible : je vous veux du bien, et je vous en ferai si vous le trouvez bon ; mais...
Seite 142 - and violence are the resort of usurpers and tyrants only; " because they are, with good reason, distrustful of the " people whom they oppress ; and because they have no " other security for the continuance of their unlawful and " unnatural dominion, than what depends entirely on the strength of their armies.
Seite 271 - English tongue, to be sensible of all the charms of his works. for my part j look on his poem call'd the essay upon criticism, as superior to the art of poetry of horace ; and his rape of the lock la boucle de cheveux [that is a comical one], is in my opinion above the lutrin of despreaux. ] never saw so amiable an imagination, so gentle graces, so great varyety, so much wit, and so refined knowledge of the world, as in this little performance.