Among My Books: First [-second] series, Том 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1898 - 380 стор. |
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... mind a lesson of veracity rather than of science , the testimony to its mnemonic virtue remains . Nay , so universally was it once believed that the senses , and through them the faculties of obser- vation and retention , were quickened ...
... mind a lesson of veracity rather than of science , the testimony to its mnemonic virtue remains . Nay , so universally was it once believed that the senses , and through them the faculties of obser- vation and retention , were quickened ...
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... mind gath- ers not only heat , but clearness and expansion , by its own motion , that they have won his battle for him in the judgment of after times . --- - - To us , looking back at him , he gradually becomes a singularly interesting ...
... mind gath- ers not only heat , but clearness and expansion , by its own motion , that they have won his battle for him in the judgment of after times . --- - - To us , looking back at him , he gradually becomes a singularly interesting ...
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... mind , in the direction of his activ- ty , the first of the moderns . He is the first literary man who was also a man of the world , as we under- stand the term . He succeeded Ben Jonson as the ac- knowledged dictator of wit and ...
... mind , in the direction of his activ- ty , the first of the moderns . He is the first literary man who was also a man of the world , as we under- stand the term . He succeeded Ben Jonson as the ac- knowledged dictator of wit and ...
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... mind was growing to the last , his judg ment widening and deepening , his artistic sense refining itself more and more . He confessed his errors , and was not ashamed to retrace his steps in search of that bet Life of Lucian . ter ...
... mind was growing to the last , his judg ment widening and deepening , his artistic sense refining itself more and more . He confessed his errors , and was not ashamed to retrace his steps in search of that bet Life of Lucian . ter ...
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... mind showed itself early . He him- self tells us that he had read Polybius " in English , with the pleasure of a boy , before he was ten years of age , and yet even then had some dark notions of the prudence with which he conducted his ...
... mind showed itself early . He him- self tells us that he had read Polybius " in English , with the pleasure of a boy , before he was ten years of age , and yet even then had some dark notions of the prudence with which he conducted his ...
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Сторінка 340 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Сторінка 361 - 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.
Сторінка 238 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Сторінка 185 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 322 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons. Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Сторінка 13 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, ' We shall be blest With some new joys,
Сторінка 163 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious...
Сторінка 4 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
Сторінка 238 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Сторінка 262 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...