The World's Great Classics: Essays of French, German and Italian essayistsTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action admirable ancient appear Aristotle awaken Balzac beautiful better Breton Brittany Byron called Catherine Catherine De Medici Catherine's Celtic century character charm Cicero Corneille criticism death Diane de Poitiers Diogenes Laertius Don Quixote Duke earth effect essay expression eyes father fear feeling fortune France French genius German give Goethe hand heart honor human idea imagination judgment King learned less literary literature live look Louis XIV Mabinogion manner matter means Medici mind misfortune Molière Montaigne moral Musset naïve nations nature never night noble opinion ourselves passions Peredur perfect person philosopher physiognomy pity pleasure Plutarch poems poet poetic poetry possess princes Quæs Rabelais reason romance Sophocles soul speak spirit style suffer things thou thought tion tragedy trouvères true truth Vidame virtue Voltaire whole words write youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 213 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
עמוד 211 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
עמוד 211 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
עמוד 223 - 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.
עמוד 465 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time...
עמוד 116 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
עמוד 45 - I do not bite my nails about the difficulties I meet with in my reading; after a charge or two, I give them over. Should I insist upon them, I should both lose myself and time; for I have an impatient understanding, that must be satisfied at first: what I do not discern at once, is by persistence rendered more obscure.
עמוד 461 - The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow; from her wilds...
עמוד 76 - I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.
עמוד 228 - God, and asserts the final triumph of good over evil, and all this without a trace of cant or pedantry. The author was preserved from both of these by an elevation of mind that shows itself throughout in the form of irony, by reason of which this little work must appear to us as wise as it is amiable.