Lives of Men of Letters and Science who Flourished in the Time of George III, כרך 2C. Knight, 1846 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 92
עמוד 2
... principle , his kindness towards his friends , his unvarying but generally rational piety , have scarcely been sufficiently praised by those who nevertheless have been always ready , as needs they must be , to acknowledge the debt of ...
... principle , his kindness towards his friends , his unvarying but generally rational piety , have scarcely been sufficiently praised by those who nevertheless have been always ready , as needs they must be , to acknowledge the debt of ...
עמוד 21
... principles , and his profligate habits , made an inroad on the moralist's purity of con- duct , for which his temperament certainly paved the way ; the testimony of his provincial friends to the chastity of his private life , has not ...
... principles , and his profligate habits , made an inroad on the moralist's purity of con- duct , for which his temperament certainly paved the way ; the testimony of his provincial friends to the chastity of his private life , has not ...
עמוד 54
... principles . They were uniformly and steadily those of a high tory in Church and State . He was of a Jacobite family , and he never laid aside his good wishes towards the Stuart family ; but when the madness of 1745 , and the subsequent ...
... principles . They were uniformly and steadily those of a high tory in Church and State . He was of a Jacobite family , and he never laid aside his good wishes towards the Stuart family ; but when the madness of 1745 , and the subsequent ...
עמוד 55
... principles broke out , even on trifles , was often suffi- ciently ludicrous . When he went to Plymouth , where he found a new town grown up , he always regarded the " Dockers " ( so they were called ) as upstarts and aliens , siding ...
... principles broke out , even on trifles , was often suffi- ciently ludicrous . When he went to Plymouth , where he found a new town grown up , he always regarded the " Dockers " ( so they were called ) as upstarts and aliens , siding ...
עמוד 59
... his mind with the evidences of Revelation ; for the general turn of his mind was to regard reasonable probability , and to be somewhat over- bearing in rejecting positions , either contrary to general principle JOHNSON . 59.
... his mind with the evidences of Revelation ; for the general turn of his mind was to regard reasonable probability , and to be somewhat over- bearing in rejecting positions , either contrary to general principle JOHNSON . 59.
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עמוד 304 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
עמוד 29 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
עמוד 280 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
עמוד 74 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from...
עמוד 68 - What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick and he left it marble.
עמוד 45 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I .knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
עמוד 304 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
עמוד 75 - Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
עמוד 306 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.
עמוד 194 - I am on the point of proposing to you a scheme for a representation of the Colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura — I cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation.