The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsPutnam, 1856 |
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Página 81
... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate our inquiry . In deviating from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object , yet it is possible we may meet several ...
... excellence , which may amuse and serve to animate our inquiry . In deviating from others , in following an unbeaten road , though we perhaps may never arrive at the wished - for object , yet it is possible we may meet several ...
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... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at mediocrity , we run no risk , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever per- suading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
... excellence , our reputation , our friends , and our all must be ventured ; by aiming only at mediocrity , we run no risk , and we do little service . Prudence and greatness are ever per- suading us to contrary pursuits . The one ...
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... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that pro- fession were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
... excellence of the sculptor than the writer . How happy were it now , if men of real excellence in that pro- fession were to arise ! Were the painters of Italy now to appear , who once wandered like beggars from one city to another , and ...
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... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been established with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ranged ...
... excellence in this way are so pleasing , that numbers have written professed treatises to teach us the art ; schools have been established with no other intent ; rhetoric has taken place among the institutions , and pedants have ranged ...
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... excellence of the Bangorian Controversy , * and the absurdity of an intermediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucubration without lifting his nose from the text , and never ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By this ...
... excellence of the Bangorian Controversy , * and the absurdity of an intermediate state . The spruce preacher reads his lucubration without lifting his nose from the text , and never ventures to earn the shame of an enthusiast . By this ...
Términos y frases comunes
absurdity acquainted admiration Æneid amusement ancient appear applause Asem beauty Broom of Cowdenknows character comedy continental connections continued criticism David Rizzio Demetrius Phalereus elector of Saxony eloquence empire endeavor enemies England English entertainment ESSAY Europe excellence expect eyes fame fancy fortune France French friends friendship genius give happiness honor humor imagination imitation improvement Italy king king of Prussia labor lady language liberty lived Lysippus Manetho mankind manner means ment merit mind nation nature neighbors never obliged observed occasion once orator passion perceived perhaps philosopher Planxty pleasing pleasure poet poetry polite learning possessed praise present prince proper Quintilian reader regard reputation ridiculous says scarcely seems seldom sense sentiments society Spain spirit spondee taste Thespis thing thought tion truth Virgil virtue vulgar whole words writer
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Página 324 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página ix - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Página 306 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?
Página 329 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 306 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Página 280 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 379 - If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught, not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.
Página 306 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Página 78 - In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.
Página 306 - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death — That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.