Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 עמודים |
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עמוד 14
... DRYDEN . The actions of men are oftener determined by their character than their interest : their con- duct takes its colour more from their acquired tastes , inclinations , and habits , than from a de- liberate regard to their greatest ...
... DRYDEN . The actions of men are oftener determined by their character than their interest : their con- duct takes its colour more from their acquired tastes , inclinations , and habits , than from a de- liberate regard to their greatest ...
עמוד 18
... DRYDEN . There is a pleasure in admiration ; and this is that which properly causeth admiration : when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent , and yet we see ( we know not how much ) more beyond that ...
... DRYDEN . There is a pleasure in admiration ; and this is that which properly causeth admiration : when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent , and yet we see ( we know not how much ) more beyond that ...
עמוד 24
... DRYDEN . instructs us , and permits not that our mortal Age oppresses us by the same degrees that it members , which are frozen with our years , should retain the vigour of our youth . DRYDEN . From fifty to threescore he loses not much ...
... DRYDEN . instructs us , and permits not that our mortal Age oppresses us by the same degrees that it members , which are frozen with our years , should retain the vigour of our youth . DRYDEN . From fifty to threescore he loses not much ...
עמוד 31
... DRYDEN . ' Tis almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition : imagination must be raised by a desire of fame to a desire of pleasing . DRYDEN . If we look abroad upon the great multitude of mankind , and endeavour to trace ...
... DRYDEN . ' Tis almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition : imagination must be raised by a desire of fame to a desire of pleasing . DRYDEN . If we look abroad upon the great multitude of mankind , and endeavour to trace ...
עמוד 34
... DRYDEN . His ancestors have been more and more solicitous to keep up the breed of their dogs and horses than that of their children . GOLDSMITH . If the virtues of strangers be so attractive to us , how infinitely more so should be ...
... DRYDEN . His ancestors have been more and more solicitous to keep up the breed of their dogs and horses than that of their children . GOLDSMITH . If the virtues of strangers be so attractive to us , how infinitely more so should be ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
עמוד 83 - 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.
עמוד 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
עמוד 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
עמוד 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
עמוד 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
עמוד 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
עמוד 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
עמוד 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
עמוד 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...