The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism, Character and Incident, Volumen6Julian Hawthorne Hamilton Book Company, 1902 |
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... youth was to be eloquent . Eloquence was the stepping - stone to place and power . The Alexandrine gram- marians , who revised Greek literature , gave special promi- nence to ten Attic orators . In chronological order their names are ...
... youth was to be eloquent . Eloquence was the stepping - stone to place and power . The Alexandrine gram- marians , who revised Greek literature , gave special promi- nence to ten Attic orators . In chronological order their names are ...
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... youths , whose fathers lost their lives in fighting bravely for their country , the people had maintained to this their age of maturity : that now , having now furnished them with complete suits of armor , they dismiss them ( with ...
... youths , whose fathers lost their lives in fighting bravely for their country , the people had maintained to this their age of maturity : that now , having now furnished them with complete suits of armor , they dismiss them ( with ...
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... youth ? No , by the Olympian god ! he never engaged in rousing the wild boar , or in any such exercises as render the body vigorous : he was solely employed in the sordid arts of fraud and circumvention . And let not his arrogance ...
... youth ? No , by the Olympian god ! he never engaged in rousing the wild boar , or in any such exercises as render the body vigorous : he was solely employed in the sordid arts of fraud and circumvention . And let not his arrogance ...
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... youth came of age he found himself stripped of his inheritance by dishonest trustees . Aided by Isæus he commenced a law- suit against the chief embezzler , and succeeded in recovering about a third of his father's estate . The loss of ...
... youth came of age he found himself stripped of his inheritance by dishonest trustees . Aided by Isæus he commenced a law- suit against the chief embezzler , and succeeded in recovering about a third of his father's estate . The loss of ...
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... youth's fresh glow , Loved even where the rueful stream doth flow . A Stranger . Cease ye like turtles idly thus to babble : They'll torture all of us with brogue and gabble . Gor . Who're you ? what's it to you our tongues we use ...
... youth's fresh glow , Loved even where the rueful stream doth flow . A Stranger . Cease ye like turtles idly thus to babble : They'll torture all of us with brogue and gabble . Gor . Who're you ? what's it to you our tongues we use ...
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Addison Æsop Alceste beauty behold born burlesque called character charms Church comedy court death Demosthenes drama Dryden English eyes fair fame father favor fear fool fortune French friends Gabriello Chiabrera genius give Greek hand hath heart Heaven honor Hôtel de Rambouillet Hudibras humor hunchback immortal John Vanbrugh Jour king L'École des Femmes lady Latin laugh learned Les Précieuses Ridicules literary literature live look lord Louis XIV madam Madame de Sévigné master mind Molière Molière's nature never night noble nymphs o'er orator Ortiz passion Paul Scarron person plays poem poet poetry praise prince prose queen Quintilian reign Restoration Roman satire Scarron Shakespeare song soon soul speak style sweet Tartuffe Telemachus tell Tharaw theatre thee things thou thought vanity verse virtue widow William Wycherley words write wrote youth
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Página 318 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge ! revenge...
Página 314 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
Página 289 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Página 284 - Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Página 364 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 315 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 316 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Página 362 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Página 332 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 316 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung: Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums; Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...