The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volumen2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... passed ; and it could not be expected that he should discover the polish and melody of Virgil . Had Lucan lived longer , he would probably have curtail- ed his episodes , smoothed his verses , and given a more per- fect , historic poem ...
... passed ; and it could not be expected that he should discover the polish and melody of Virgil . Had Lucan lived longer , he would probably have curtail- ed his episodes , smoothed his verses , and given a more per- fect , historic poem ...
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... passed at the public schools , are seven steps of a ladder , by which a youth may pass from the lowest to the highest grade of society . We could not ex- pect , that a person , thus elevated , would carry much refine- ment with him ...
... passed at the public schools , are seven steps of a ladder , by which a youth may pass from the lowest to the highest grade of society . We could not ex- pect , that a person , thus elevated , would carry much refine- ment with him ...
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... passed so long for relatives . They are here individuals ; for no demonstrance of duty or authority can distinguish them , as if they were created together , and not born succes- sively . Their apparel is civil enough , but very ...
... passed so long for relatives . They are here individuals ; for no demonstrance of duty or authority can distinguish them , as if they were created together , and not born succes- sively . Their apparel is civil enough , but very ...
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... passed through Flanders into Germany with the design of taking a different rout from the one , which he afterwards was induced to pursue . He arrived at Manheim , where the Duke De Deux Ponts , the present elector , happened to be ...
... passed through Flanders into Germany with the design of taking a different rout from the one , which he afterwards was induced to pursue . He arrived at Manheim , where the Duke De Deux Ponts , the present elector , happened to be ...
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... passed by , to pity and relieve them ; and , in order to make them act their part more naturally , they were unmercifully beat- en , when they came home , by their inhuman parents , if " they did not bring with them a certain sum ...
... passed by , to pity and relieve them ; and , in order to make them act their part more naturally , they were unmercifully beat- en , when they came home , by their inhuman parents , if " they did not bring with them a certain sum ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Página 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Página 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Página 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Página 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Página 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Página 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...