Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an Original Life of the AuthorHarper & Brothers, 1853 - 647 páginas |
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... Rome ; yet that great man , by unadvisedly , our constitution may at once some error in his conduct , became an object be destroyed , and our government render- of general dislike ; and therefore , in the re- ed arbitrary . Can we then ...
... Rome ; yet that great man , by unadvisedly , our constitution may at once some error in his conduct , became an object be destroyed , and our government render- of general dislike ; and therefore , in the re- ed arbitrary . Can we then ...
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... Rome ? Was it not the chiet man hear , that a commodity was prohibit- cause of the Reformation ? And will you ed by licensing its sale , or that to offer and follow a precedent which brought reproach refuse is the same action ? and ruin ...
... Rome ? Was it not the chiet man hear , that a commodity was prohibit- cause of the Reformation ? And will you ed by licensing its sale , or that to offer and follow a precedent which brought reproach refuse is the same action ? and ruin ...
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... Rome ; mais Didon , qui ne vouloit point qu'il s'en allat , lui reprochoit son ingratitude , et les faveurs qu'elle lui avoit accordées . Mais n'importe , il se sauve de nuit , la quitte , et se met en mer . La pauvre Didon , au ...
... Rome ; mais Didon , qui ne vouloit point qu'il s'en allat , lui reprochoit son ingratitude , et les faveurs qu'elle lui avoit accordées . Mais n'importe , il se sauve de nuit , la quitte , et se met en mer . La pauvre Didon , au ...
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... Rome ; but Dido opposed his departure , and reproached him with ingratitude , and the favours he had received . However , he left her , ran off in the night , and put to sea . Poor Dido , in despair at being abandoned by the man she ...
... Rome ; but Dido opposed his departure , and reproached him with ingratitude , and the favours he had received . However , he left her , ran off in the night , and put to sea . Poor Dido , in despair at being abandoned by the man she ...
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... Rome , descendoit d'Enée et de La- vinie . TRANSLATION Isleworth , June 30. 1738 . I now send you , my dear , a very short history of the siege of Troy . You will there see how justly the Trojans were punished for supporting Paris in ...
... Rome , descendoit d'Enée et de La- vinie . TRANSLATION Isleworth , June 30. 1738 . I now send you , my dear , a very short history of the siege of Troy . You will there see how justly the Trojans were punished for supporting Paris in ...
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Página lv - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página lv - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página lv - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Página lv - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página lv - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Página 129 - ... man of sense laughs at it, at the same time that he knows he must not neglect it: there are a thousand foolish customs of this kind, which not being criminal must be complied with, and even cheerfully, by men of sense. Diogenes the Cynic was a wise man for despising them ; but a fool for showing it. Be wiser than other people, if you can ; but do not tell them so.
Página 279 - In mixed companies whoever is admitted to make part of them is for the time at least supposed to be upon a footing of equality with the rest ; and consequently as there is no one principal object of awe and respect, people are apt to take a greater latitude in their...
Página xxi - Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown :
Página 153 - For my own part, I used to think myself in company as much above me, when I was with Mr Addison and Mr Pope, as if I had been with all the princes in Europe.
Página 205 - Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four and twenty hours together.