Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsP.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 462 páginas Each of the prefaces and prologues in this volume is a complete work of literature unto itself, offering a unique insight to the thoughts of its author. |
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... greater is the heat . ” And on a time one asked him what him semed of women ; he answered that the women resemble a tree called Edelfia , which is the fairest tree to behold and see that may be , but within it is full of venom . And ...
... greater is the heat . ” And on a time one asked him what him semed of women ; he answered that the women resemble a tree called Edelfia , which is the fairest tree to behold and see that may be , but within it is full of venom . And ...
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... greater and greatest have been left to posterity ; first , by those happy hands which the Holy Ghost hath guided ; and secondly , by their virtue , who have gathered the acts and ends of men mighty and remarkable in the world . Now to ...
... greater and greatest have been left to posterity ; first , by those happy hands which the Holy Ghost hath guided ; and secondly , by their virtue , who have gathered the acts and ends of men mighty and remarkable in the world . Now to ...
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... greater judgment of God than this upon Hastings , I have never observed in any story . For the selfsame day that the Earl Rivers , Grey , and others , were ( without trial of law , of offence given ) by Hastings ' advice executed at ...
... greater judgment of God than this upon Hastings , I have never observed in any story . For the selfsame day that the Earl Rivers , Grey , and others , were ( without trial of law , of offence given ) by Hastings ' advice executed at ...
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... greater price than it hath since cost us . It is true , that there was never any common weal or kingdom in the world , wherein no man had cause to lament . Kings live in the world , and not above it . They are not infinite to examine ...
... greater price than it hath since cost us . It is true , that there was never any common weal or kingdom in the world , wherein no man had cause to lament . Kings live in the world , and not above it . They are not infinite to examine ...
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... greater regard than the former . The first is the reverend respect that is held of great men , and the honor done unto them by all sorts of people . And it is true indeed : provided , that an inward love for their justice and piety ...
... greater regard than the former . The first is the reverend respect that is held of great men , and the honor done unto them by all sorts of people . And it is true indeed : provided , that an inward love for their justice and piety ...
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Página 258 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Página 258 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Página 213 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 224 - ... he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 217 - It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
Página 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Página 286 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Página 318 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 279 - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
Página 216 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.