The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Volumen2J. Mawman, 1816 |
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... nature and industry made his worthy father stile him in my hearing ( though I unseen ) " the bright ornament of his ... natural care of you provoketh me to wish you to follow , as documents to you in this your tender age . * From this ...
... nature and industry made his worthy father stile him in my hearing ( though I unseen ) " the bright ornament of his ... natural care of you provoketh me to wish you to follow , as documents to you in this your tender age . * From this ...
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... nature hath rampired up as it were the tongue with teeth , lips , yea , and hair without the lips , and all betokening reins or bridles for the loose use of that member . * Above all things , tell no untruth , no not in trifles . The ...
... nature hath rampired up as it were the tongue with teeth , lips , yea , and hair without the lips , and all betokening reins or bridles for the loose use of that member . * Above all things , tell no untruth , no not in trifles . The ...
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... natural son of the Emperor Charles V. , and Viceroy of Philip II . in the Netherlands ; who , though at first from his national pride and his inve- * Of his reception at the Imperial court we have his own official account , in a letter ...
... natural son of the Emperor Charles V. , and Viceroy of Philip II . in the Netherlands ; who , though at first from his national pride and his inve- * Of his reception at the Imperial court we have his own official account , in a letter ...
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... nature to defend his father's cause , and who was otherwise furnished with so many virtues as he knew Mr. Philip to be . " Sidney was , at this time , the Queen's cupbearer . In 1578 , when the Count Palatine visited England , * Though ...
... nature to defend his father's cause , and who was otherwise furnished with so many virtues as he knew Mr. Philip to be . " Sidney was , at this time , the Queen's cupbearer . In 1578 , when the Count Palatine visited England , * Though ...
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... nature ) yet was she content to cast her own affections into the same mould her subjects did , and govern all her rights by the laws . ' He besought her Majesty at the same time to consider , that although the Earl of Oxford were a ...
... nature ) yet was she content to cast her own affections into the same mould her subjects did , and govern all her rights by the laws . ' He besought her Majesty at the same time to consider , that although the Earl of Oxford were a ...
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Página 398 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,— In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs,— All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Página 397 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Página 484 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Página 311 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Página 305 - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions...
Página 400 - Their purpose is ambition, Their practice, only hate ; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell them that brave it most, They beg for more by spending Who in their greatest cost Seek nothing but commending ; And if they make reply, Spare not to give the lie.
Página 309 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and, in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.
Página 99 - We have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery ; but, I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Página 316 - Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
Página 314 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.