Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the Elizabethan PeriodRivingtons, 1884 - 374 páginas |
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... never enters upon war at all unless after trying all possible means to avoid it . " These views suggest by way of contrast those of Machiavelli in The Prince , written in 1513 , with the same object , but in a far different spirit . “ A ...
... never enters upon war at all unless after trying all possible means to avoid it . " These views suggest by way of contrast those of Machiavelli in The Prince , written in 1513 , with the same object , but in a far different spirit . “ A ...
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... never wished to shirk its duties , never lost his interest in it ; how he prayed that he might not so embrace Martha as utterly to forget Mary ; and how , in spite of the warning of Savonarola , he remained a layman to the end . In 1505 ...
... never wished to shirk its duties , never lost his interest in it ; how he prayed that he might not so embrace Martha as utterly to forget Mary ; and how , in spite of the warning of Savonarola , he remained a layman to the end . In 1505 ...
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... never undertake any cause that he did not con- sider just . His reputation for uprightness , joined to his business capacity , caused him to be much sought after . When Erasmus impatiently demands letters of him , he replies that he is ...
... never undertake any cause that he did not con- sider just . His reputation for uprightness , joined to his business capacity , caused him to be much sought after . When Erasmus impatiently demands letters of him , he replies that he is ...
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... never accept a post under Government unless there was a possi- bility of modifying the King's action . In both books More attempts to give reality and force to his conceptions by describing every detail of his fictitious personages and ...
... never accept a post under Government unless there was a possi- bility of modifying the King's action . In both books More attempts to give reality and force to his conceptions by describing every detail of his fictitious personages and ...
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... never so well do as if you be of some great prince's counsel . " Probably , when these arguments had been urged to More himself he had answered in the same words that he puts into the mouth of Raphael : " You be twice deceived , Master ...
... never so well do as if you be of some great prince's counsel . " Probably , when these arguments had been urged to More himself he had answered in the same words that he puts into the mouth of Raphael : " You be twice deceived , Master ...
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Página 130 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 317 - ... itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Página 129 - Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight. Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope.
Página 357 - GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.
Página 348 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 363 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Página 358 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 226 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Página 365 - I see them walking in an air of glory, "Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
Página 223 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...