A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects, Volume 1Trübner, 1859 - 3140 páginas |
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... mind of the reader , that we shall .... credi mihi ( saith one ) extingui dulce erit Mathe- reënforce the arguments we have already urged to induce him to become a diligent student , by the cita- tion of some weighty opinions as to the ...
... mind of the reader , that we shall .... credi mihi ( saith one ) extingui dulce erit Mathe- reënforce the arguments we have already urged to induce him to become a diligent student , by the cita- tion of some weighty opinions as to the ...
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... mind's best Ordinary ; Nature's Garden and Seed - plot of Immortality . Time spent ( needlessly ) from them , is con- sumed , but with them , twice gain'd . Time captivated and snatched from thee , by Incursions of business , Thefts of ...
... mind's best Ordinary ; Nature's Garden and Seed - plot of Immortality . Time spent ( needlessly ) from them , is con- sumed , but with them , twice gain'd . Time captivated and snatched from thee , by Incursions of business , Thefts of ...
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... mind . If I could have made my lectures to them better , I would certainly have made them so . I will give the College of Surgeons precisely the same lectures , down to the smallest details ; nay , I will tell the old fellows how to ...
... mind . If I could have made my lectures to them better , I would certainly have made them so . I will give the College of Surgeons precisely the same lectures , down to the smallest details ; nay , I will tell the old fellows how to ...
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... mind distrust of his qualifications and fitness for a position so sacred and re- sponsible . Whether the voice of ambition at this season of youthful triumph was permitted to drown the pleadings of conscience , it is impossible to ...
... mind distrust of his qualifications and fitness for a position so sacred and re- sponsible . Whether the voice of ambition at this season of youthful triumph was permitted to drown the pleadings of conscience , it is impossible to ...
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... mind : and his face lights up from it with a glory of thanks and prayer . . . . If Swift's life was the most wretched , I think Addison's was one of the most enviable . A life prosperous and beautiful - a calm death - an immense fame ...
... mind : and his face lights up from it with a glory of thanks and prayer . . . . If Swift's life was the most wretched , I think Addison's was one of the most enviable . A life prosperous and beautiful - a calm death - an immense fame ...
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Página 174 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Página 11 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 175 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 243 - Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
Página 70 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Página 11 - ... ..Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most '
Página 88 - My conceit of his Person was never increased toward him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many Ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength : for Greatness he could not want.
Página 11 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 174 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 11 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.