Noctes Atticæ, or Reveries in a garret; containing observations on men and books |
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... equal eminence , and of not less erudition , has strongly confirmed the opinion of Johnson . " It is certain that every attempt to clothe the * He died 1661 . sacred scriptures in verse will have the effect of misrepresenting 18.
... equal eminence , and of not less erudition , has strongly confirmed the opinion of Johnson . " It is certain that every attempt to clothe the * He died 1661 . sacred scriptures in verse will have the effect of misrepresenting 18.
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... equal truth , " It was the best I could make of him . " Butler has excellently ridiculed the pedantry of such borrowed knowledge , which is " like manure burdening the soil which it cannot fructify . " And the Poet calls such learning ...
... equal truth , " It was the best I could make of him . " Butler has excellently ridiculed the pedantry of such borrowed knowledge , which is " like manure burdening the soil which it cannot fructify . " And the Poet calls such learning ...
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... equal dis- grace , and raises equal contempt , on those who give and those who receive . Ill fares any cause , where money shall gain the preponderance which should alone be the privilege of virtue to produce . " The orator , a few ...
... equal dis- grace , and raises equal contempt , on those who give and those who receive . Ill fares any cause , where money shall gain the preponderance which should alone be the privilege of virtue to produce . " The orator , a few ...
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... equal justice perhaps in both cases . Self - Biography . The least experienced part of mankind hesitates to give credit to a man's own account of himself , at least without the security of an oath . There are two impediments to our ...
... equal justice perhaps in both cases . Self - Biography . The least experienced part of mankind hesitates to give credit to a man's own account of himself , at least without the security of an oath . There are two impediments to our ...
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... are well described , and properly ridiculed , by one who could value real learning , and penetrate into the mockeries of it , with equal powers of skill and discernment . However many books , Wise men have said , are 81 Poets.
... are well described , and properly ridiculed , by one who could value real learning , and penetrate into the mockeries of it , with equal powers of skill and discernment . However many books , Wise men have said , are 81 Poets.
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Términos y frases comunes
admire Æsop amusing ancient anecdote Aristotle bard beauty Cæsar called censure character Cicero common composition critic David Hume described disputes Don Quixote dull elegant eminent endeavoured English Essay Euripides excellent fancy favourite fool French genius Gothic Architecture Greek Greek language happiness hero historian honour Hudibras humour idle IMITATED ingenious intellect John Locke Johnson Julius Cæsar ladies language learned letters lines lively Lord Lord Monboddo lover matter Milton mind mode modern moral nature never observed opinion orator passage passion perhaps persons philosopher Plato Platonic Love pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry Pope powers praise pride prose Quintilian racter reader reason rhyme ridicule Roman satire says scene scholar seems sense sentiments Shakespeare shew singular speak style Tacitus talents taste Theocritus things thought truth virtue Voltaire whilst wise wish words writer young
Pasajes populares
Página 96 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 153 - FRIENDS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Página 21 - Pillag'd from slaves to purchase slaves at home; Fear, pity, justice, indignation start, Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart ; Till half a patriot, half a coward grown, I fly from petty tyrants to the throne.
Página 28 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Página 45 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Página 129 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Página 153 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Página 5 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and cannot but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.
Página 68 - In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due! yet all his good...
Página 38 - Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to show with how small pain The sores of faith are cured again; Although by woeful proof we find They always leave a scar behind.