A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ; Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms...E. C. and J. Biddle, 1859 - 762 páginas |
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... Cicero offers Himself to the Bar ... Close of Cicero's Consulship .. 490 ROBERT DODSLEY 549 491 Emulation 550 Character of Pompey .. 492 Temperance 550 Anger 551 HENRY ST . JOHN ( BOLINGBROKE ) .. 494 Woman 552 Absurdities of Useless ...
... Cicero offers Himself to the Bar ... Close of Cicero's Consulship .. 490 ROBERT DODSLEY 549 491 Emulation 550 Character of Pompey .. 492 Temperance 550 Anger 551 HENRY ST . JOHN ( BOLINGBROKE ) .. 494 Woman 552 Absurdities of Useless ...
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... Cicero . " It might more properly be called , The Life and Times of Cicero , since it is full , not only in every thing that relates personally to the illustrious Roman orator , but gives an admirable picture of the Republic at the time ...
... Cicero . " It might more properly be called , The Life and Times of Cicero , since it is full , not only in every thing that relates personally to the illustrious Roman orator , but gives an admirable picture of the Republic at the time ...
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... CICERO OFFERS HIMSELF TO THE BAR . Cicero had now run through all that course of discipline , which he lays down as necessary to form the complete orator : for , in his treatise on that subject , he gives us his own sentiments in the ...
... CICERO OFFERS HIMSELF TO THE BAR . Cicero had now run through all that course of discipline , which he lays down as necessary to form the complete orator : for , in his treatise on that subject , he gives us his own sentiments in the ...
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... CICERO'S CONSULship . But before we close the account of the memorable events of this year , we must not omit the mention of one which distin- guished it afterwards as a particular era in the annals of Rome , the birth of OCTAVIUS ...
... CICERO'S CONSULship . But before we close the account of the memorable events of this year , we must not omit the mention of one which distin- guished it afterwards as a particular era in the annals of Rome , the birth of OCTAVIUS ...
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... Cicero , who was never at a loss , instead of pronouncing the ordinary form of the oath , exalting the tone of his voice , swore out aloud , so as all the people might hear him , that he had saved the republic and the city from ruin ...
... Cicero , who was never at a loss , instead of pronouncing the ordinary form of the oath , exalting the tone of his voice , swore out aloud , so as all the people might hear him , that he had saved the republic and the city from ruin ...
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Página 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 213 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 598 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Página 164 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 664 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 593 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Página 247 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Página 598 - Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 394 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be...
Página 266 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...