Milton's Familiar LettersE. Littell, 1829 - 120 páginas |
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... historian ' . I engage to preserve it carefully until your visit or if you would rather , have it sent to you soon afterwards . Farewell . 6 I know not what reference is meant here , unless it be to the disturbances consequent upon ...
... historian ' . I engage to preserve it carefully until your visit or if you would rather , have it sent to you soon afterwards . Farewell . 6 I know not what reference is meant here , unless it be to the disturbances consequent upon ...
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... historians . To a studious person so disposed , it would not be difficult to select some one of peculiar distinction , and enlarge , as he would frequently have an opportunity of doing . In this species of composition , you have Cicero ...
... historians . To a studious person so disposed , it would not be difficult to select some one of peculiar distinction , and enlarge , as he would frequently have an opportunity of doing . In this species of composition , you have Cicero ...
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... historians were published seriatim from the press of the Louvre 1642-1670 in thirty - eight vo- lumes folio . * 4 Stoup appears to have been a government agent . In a State letter from the Protector to the authorities of the city of ...
... historians were published seriatim from the press of the Louvre 1642-1670 in thirty - eight vo- lumes folio . * 4 Stoup appears to have been a government agent . In a State letter from the Protector to the authorities of the city of ...
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... historians have , for many ages , left in obscurity . I have never undertaken , nor can I ven- ture to undertake ... historian ; such is the almost universal sentiment of the an- cients . Your Tacitus has his merits , but in my mind ...
... historians have , for many ages , left in obscurity . I have never undertaken , nor can I ven- ture to undertake ... historian ; such is the almost universal sentiment of the an- cients . Your Tacitus has his merits , but in my mind ...
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... historian , not an ora- tor . I do not like to see sentiments frequently expressed , and prolix opinions interspersed , lest , having forsaken his narrative , the historian in- fringe on the province of the politician ; he has enough in ...
... historian , not an ora- tor . I do not like to see sentiments frequently expressed , and prolix opinions interspersed , lest , having forsaken his narrative , the historian in- fringe on the province of the politician ; he has enough in ...
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Página 64 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 4 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 31 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 93 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 32 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Página 111 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 111 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 66 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Página 49 - And useless powers, by whom inspired, thyself Art skilful to associate verse with airs Harmonious, and to give the human voice A thousand modulations, heir by right Indisputable of Arion's fame. Now say, what wonder is it, if a son Of thine delight in verse, if, so conjoin'd In close affinity, we sympathize In social arts and kindred studies sweet ? Such distribution of himself to us Was Phoebus...
Página 70 - So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.