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Pagina 6
... beauty of Lady Joanna Beaufoy , to whom he was afterwards married . His poem is allowed by all critics to possess great merits , and to bear a strong resemblance in thought and style to Chaucer and Gower , whom , indeed , he professedly ...
... beauty of Lady Joanna Beaufoy , to whom he was afterwards married . His poem is allowed by all critics to possess great merits , and to bear a strong resemblance in thought and style to Chaucer and Gower , whom , indeed , he professedly ...
Pagina 51
... beauty of some captives set up for sale in the slave - market at Rome , asked them who they were ; they replied that they were Angli ( English ) ; " you are well named Angeli ( angels ) , " said the Pope , " for your beauty is more than ...
... beauty of some captives set up for sale in the slave - market at Rome , asked them who they were ; they replied that they were Angli ( English ) ; " you are well named Angeli ( angels ) , " said the Pope , " for your beauty is more than ...
Pagina 52
... beauty commonly exceedeth the fairest of those of the main . This , nevertheless , I utterly mislike in the poorer sort of them ( for the wealthier do seldom offend herein ) , that being of themselves without government , they are so ...
... beauty commonly exceedeth the fairest of those of the main . This , nevertheless , I utterly mislike in the poorer sort of them ( for the wealthier do seldom offend herein ) , that being of themselves without government , they are so ...
Pagina 58
... beauty of poetical description , it has never been surpassed ; but it is generally admitted that the compli- cated nature of the allegory , and the superabundant profuseness of his invention , render the continuous perusal of the whole ...
... beauty of poetical description , it has never been surpassed ; but it is generally admitted that the compli- cated nature of the allegory , and the superabundant profuseness of his invention , render the continuous perusal of the whole ...
Pagina 61
... beauty , and eloquence , nothing comparable could be produced from the works of any other writer in the language . Of the other writers of the period , Usher , Fuller , Camden , May , and Speed , are the best known . James was himself ...
... beauty , and eloquence , nothing comparable could be produced from the works of any other writer in the language . Of the other writers of the period , Usher , Fuller , Camden , May , and Speed , are the best known . James was himself ...
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Pagina 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Pagina 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Pagina 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Pagina 79 - 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.
Pagina 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Pagina 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Pagina 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Pagina 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Pagina 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Pagina 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.