Miscellanies of LiteratureE. Moxon, 1853 - 484 páginas |
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Addison admirable Æneid alludes ancient Anthony Wood appears Aristotle attack Bentley Bishop Bolingbroke bookseller calamity called character Cibber contempt criticism curious Curll Dennis discovered Divine Dryden Dunciad edition elegant English Essay on Criticism fame fancy favour feelings Gabriel Harvey genius give Gondibert Harvey hath Henley historian Histriomastix Hobbes honour Horace Horace Walpole human humour imagination invention James Johnson king labour learned letter libel literature lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke melancholy mind Molière Nash nation nature never observed Ockley opinion original panegyric party passion patron perpetual philosopher poem poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's preface preserved principle printed Prynne published racter reader reply ridicule Royal Society satire says secret seems Sir John Hill spirit Stubbe studies style taste temper things thought tion Toland truth verse volume Warburton Whig write written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 71 - But Appius reddens at each word you speak, And stares, tremendous, with a threatening eye, Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry.
Página 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Página 156 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 330 - Jack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my Council and all our proceedings. Then Will shall stand up and say it must be thus; then Dick shall reply and say nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Página 138 - For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study ? why am I grown old, in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? The same parts and application, which have made me a poet, might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself.
Página 121 - To this solemn and monitory work he prefixed his name, from this honourable motive, that it might serve as " a standing testimony against himself, and make him ashamed of understanding, and seeming to feel what was virtuous, and living so quite contrary a life.
Página 77 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house ; and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Página 482 - I am still of opinion that it was a practicable scheme, and might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study...
Página 378 - Concourse and noise and toil he ever fled; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There would he wander wild, till Phoebus' beam, Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team.
Página 449 - Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair, And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.