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... such capacity , accuracy , industry , and honefty , as " make it one of the best books that ever came into the world , " and shew him to be one of the greatest men in it . No " book was ever more univerfally read and approved : it is ...
... such capacity , accuracy , industry , and honefty , as " make it one of the best books that ever came into the world , " and shew him to be one of the greatest men in it . No " book was ever more univerfally read and approved : it is ...
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... such a share of good health , as to purfue his ftudies and he tells us himself , that , " though he was " driven out of the pulpit , and difabled from that duty of his nection , & c . profeffion , yet , that he might not be altogether ...
... such a share of good health , as to purfue his ftudies and he tells us himself , that , " though he was " driven out of the pulpit , and difabled from that duty of his nection , & c . profeffion , yet , that he might not be altogether ...
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... difciples offered themselves to a man , of whose wisdom such prodigious effects had been now seen and heard . They came to him from Greece , and from Italy ; but but for fear of pouring the treasures of wifdom into 48 PYTHAGORA S.
... difciples offered themselves to a man , of whose wisdom such prodigious effects had been now seen and heard . They came to him from Greece , and from Italy ; but but for fear of pouring the treasures of wifdom into 48 PYTHAGORA S.
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... such weight and estimation , that the university of that place deputed him to Paris upon a very important er- rand . His reputation and character were spread through the kingdom ; fo that , when he arrived at Paris , the chancellor du ...
... such weight and estimation , that the university of that place deputed him to Paris upon a very important er- rand . His reputation and character were spread through the kingdom ; fo that , when he arrived at Paris , the chancellor du ...
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... such ftrong terms the indignity of the profecution , that the perfon accused was cleared , and every body had the liberty of pronouncing as they pleased . Ramus was bred up in the catholic religion , but afterwards deferted it . He ...
... such ftrong terms the indignity of the profecution , that the perfon accused was cleared , and every body had the liberty of pronouncing as they pleased . Ramus was bred up in the catholic religion , but afterwards deferted it . He ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 348 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 501 - Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others...
Seite 348 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time; And all the muses still were in their prime When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines, Which were so richly spun and woven so fit As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.
Seite 341 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other poets have a constant resemblance, which...
Seite 501 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
Seite 464 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 483 - He Has vindicated Eloquence and Wit. His candid Stile like a clean Stream does slide, And his bright Fancy all the way Does like the Sun-shine in it play ; It does like Thames, the best of Rivers, glide, Where the God does not rudely overturn, But gently pour the Crystal Urn, And with judicious hand does the whole Current Guide. T' has all the Beauties Nature can impart, And all the comely Dress without the paint of Art.
Seite 345 - I believe they meant those which had lain ever since the author's days in the playhouse, and had from time to time been cut, or added to, arbitrarily.
Seite 344 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Seite 338 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them some that made a frequent practice of deerstealing engaged him with them more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote near Stratford.