The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining: abridged from the larger volume: intended to assist in introducing scholars at classical and other schools, to an acquaintance with useful and ornamental knowledge..Messrs. Rivingtons, Longman, 1792 - 456 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 62
עמוד 143
... reign , his firft mi- is the Farnefe palace . Allowing Manilius's nifter for home affairs , Maecenas ; and in the poem to pafs for what it pretends to be , there latter part , his grandfon Germanicus , were of is nothing remains to us ...
... reign , his firft mi- is the Farnefe palace . Allowing Manilius's nifter for home affairs , Maecenas ; and in the poem to pafs for what it pretends to be , there latter part , his grandfon Germanicus , were of is nothing remains to us ...
עמוד 144
... reign of Nero , may very well ferve for examples of the faults I just mentioned , one of the fwelling , and the other of the obfcure ftyle , then in fashion . Lucan's manner , in general , runs too much into fuftian and bombaft . His ...
... reign of Nero , may very well ferve for examples of the faults I just mentioned , one of the fwelling , and the other of the obfcure ftyle , then in fashion . Lucan's manner , in general , runs too much into fuftian and bombaft . His ...
עמוד 145
... reign , encouraged poetry by his example , as well as by his liberalities : and even Domi- tian loved to be thought a patron of the mufes . After him , there was a fucceffion of good emperors , from Nerva to the Anto- nines . And this ...
... reign , encouraged poetry by his example , as well as by his liberalities : and even Domi- tian loved to be thought a patron of the mufes . After him , there was a fucceffion of good emperors , from Nerva to the Anto- nines . And this ...
עמוד 147
... reign to the end of Adrian's , when they endeavoured after beauty more than ftrength : when they loft much of their vigour , and run too much into affectation . Their poetry , in its youth , was strong and nervous ; in its middle age ...
... reign to the end of Adrian's , when they endeavoured after beauty more than ftrength : when they loft much of their vigour , and run too much into affectation . Their poetry , in its youth , was strong and nervous ; in its middle age ...
עמוד 148
... reign of Tiberius , was as a fudden fro fome enough to invite any one to look upon them for pleature . Their defign , I fuppofe , was anfwerable to the materials they were made of ; and if their gods were of earthen ware , they were ...
... reign of Tiberius , was as a fudden fro fome enough to invite any one to look upon them for pleature . Their defign , I fuppofe , was anfwerable to the materials they were made of ; and if their gods were of earthen ware , they were ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 3 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
עמוד 1 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and, taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
עמוד 70 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
עמוד 249 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
עמוד 36 - Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be derived upon us, is the gift of Him who is the great Author of Good, and Father of Mercies.
עמוד 365 - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night...
עמוד 1 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
עמוד 36 - It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification that accompanies it.
עמוד 1 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
עמוד 338 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...