The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
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Pagina xxi
... Thing we call fheer Wit avoid . D. Bucks . Indeed we have not had of late much occafion to com . plain of the Sheernefs of Men's Wit , and the Lilli- puts and Profundities are lamentable Proofs that we need be in no more Concern about ...
... Thing we call fheer Wit avoid . D. Bucks . Indeed we have not had of late much occafion to com . plain of the Sheernefs of Men's Wit , and the Lilli- puts and Profundities are lamentable Proofs that we need be in no more Concern about ...
Pagina xxii
... Thing befide Language , it wou'd run into Extravagance , the certain Effect of Neglect of Thought . But there's nothing more common than for People to talk wildly , when they touch on Subjects they are not Masters of . A Man may ...
... Thing befide Language , it wou'd run into Extravagance , the certain Effect of Neglect of Thought . But there's nothing more common than for People to talk wildly , when they touch on Subjects they are not Masters of . A Man may ...
Pagina xxiii
... Thing very Marvellous , or worthy of Pofterity : Which Tranflations are not thought to be by Men of Genius and Judgment . Boileau again in a Letter to Monf . de Maucroix , fays , As for me , and my Brother Translators , we have no ...
... Thing very Marvellous , or worthy of Pofterity : Which Tranflations are not thought to be by Men of Genius and Judgment . Boileau again in a Letter to Monf . de Maucroix , fays , As for me , and my Brother Translators , we have no ...
Pagina 8
... Thing . Most Readers are of the Opinion of Father Bouhours's Philan- thus , That nothing can be more grand and more fine than this Thought ; whereas that learned Jefuit tells us , ' tis only fine in Appearance , and that when we examine ...
... Thing . Most Readers are of the Opinion of Father Bouhours's Philan- thus , That nothing can be more grand and more fine than this Thought ; whereas that learned Jefuit tells us , ' tis only fine in Appearance , and that when we examine ...
Pagina 9
... Thing more like to the Gods than to Men . It is allow'd He was a divine Man ; but ftill he was a Man ; and Lucan ... Things other- wife . THE Gods declar'd themselves for Cafar , by the Suc- cefs of the War , tho ' Pompey's Party was the ...
... Thing more like to the Gods than to Men . It is allow'd He was a divine Man ; but ftill he was a Man ; and Lucan ... Things other- wife . THE Gods declar'd themselves for Cafar , by the Suc- cefs of the War , tho ' Pompey's Party was the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 344 - Thus fell the greatest subject in power, and little inferior to any in fortune, that was at that time in any of the three kingdoms; who could well remember the time, when he led those people, who then pursued him to his grave. He was a man of great parts, and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned with some addition of art and learning, though that again was more improved and illustrated by the other...
Pagina 369 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pagina 91 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Pagina 61 - In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds, and the purling of streams; but upon the finishing of some secret spell, the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath, or in a solitary desert.
Pagina 93 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing: Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air...
Pagina 296 - When it does not let him sleep, it is a flame that sends up no smoke ; when it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it.
Pagina 281 - Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Pagina 77 - Hither, as to their fountain , other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Pagina 231 - ... in a way so very becoming, that the air of the pretty gentleman is preserved, under the lowliness of the preacher. I...
Pagina 91 - ... of this earth ; what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous: she glorified herself, and lived deliciously; and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.