Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Band 41812 |
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... happy ages are those in which the arts were carried to perfection ; and which , by serving as the era of the greatness of the human mind , are examples for posterity . The first of these ages , to which true glory is annexed , is that ...
... happy ages are those in which the arts were carried to perfection ; and which , by serving as the era of the greatness of the human mind , are examples for posterity . The first of these ages , to which true glory is annexed , is that ...
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... happy in- fluence has not been confined to France ; it has communicated itself to England , where it has stirred up an emulation which that ingenious and deeply - learned nation stood in need of at that time ; it has introduced taste ...
... happy in- fluence has not been confined to France ; it has communicated itself to England , where it has stirred up an emulation which that ingenious and deeply - learned nation stood in need of at that time ; it has introduced taste ...
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... happy . Lewis XI . did a great deal for the regal power , but nothing for the happiness or glory of the nation . Francis I. gave birth to trade , navigation , and all the arts ; but he was too unfortunate to make them take root in the ...
... happy . Lewis XI . did a great deal for the regal power , but nothing for the happiness or glory of the nation . Francis I. gave birth to trade , navigation , and all the arts ; but he was too unfortunate to make them take root in the ...
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... happy work . Thus , for the space of nine hundred years , our genius had been almost always restrained under a Gothic government , in the midst of divisions and civil wars ; destitute of any laws or fixed customs ; changing every second ...
... happy work . Thus , for the space of nine hundred years , our genius had been almost always restrained under a Gothic government , in the midst of divisions and civil wars ; destitute of any laws or fixed customs ; changing every second ...
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... happy situation greatly contributed to that tranquillity of mind and indolence of body , which he made his chief ends . He had not , however , resolution sufficient to meet the gradual approaches of death , and ́ wanted that constancy ...
... happy situation greatly contributed to that tranquillity of mind and indolence of body , which he made his chief ends . He had not , however , resolution sufficient to meet the gradual approaches of death , and ́ wanted that constancy ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration affable affection agreeable ambition appeared arts ASPASIO avarice beauty Boil Cæsar character Charles Chesterfield Cicero conduct countess of Somerset court crown danger death desired dignity disposition earl Edward Edward VI elegant enemies England equally errours Europe execution father favour favourite fortune give glory hand happy heart Henry Henry VIII honour house of lords human Hume Iago king kingdom lady Jane LADY JANE GREY learning less lived lord LORD BOLINGBROKE LORD TOWNSHEND mankind manners Mary matter ment mind minister monarch moral narch nation nature neral never noble passions perfect person philosopher Plato pleasure Pompey Pope possessed prince princess qualities queen racter reason regard reign religion rendered replied Rizio Roger Ascham seemed Sir John soul sovereign spirit Sterl subjects talents temper thing thou thought throne tion truth uncle Toby vices vigour violence virtue writers zeal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Seite 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Seite 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Seite 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Seite 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Seite 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Seite 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Seite 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Seite 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Seite 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.