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... whole of our poetry . Rabe- lais was the only prose writer in vogue , in the time of Henry II . In a word , the Italians alone were in possession of every thing that was beautiful , excepting music , which was then but in a rude state ...
... whole of our poetry . Rabe- lais was the only prose writer in vogue , in the time of Henry II . In a word , the Italians alone were in possession of every thing that was beautiful , excepting music , which was then but in a rude state ...
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... whole of this dark and dreary period . It is here we must look for the taste and literature of the times . The few who were enlightened , when arts and sciences were thus obscured , may be said to have happily maintained the continuity ...
... whole of this dark and dreary period . It is here we must look for the taste and literature of the times . The few who were enlightened , when arts and sciences were thus obscured , may be said to have happily maintained the continuity ...
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... whole earth , as Velleius says , had scarce been sufficient for his victories , could not find a spot upon it at last for a grave . His body was burnt on the shore by one of his freed - men , with the planks of an old fishing - boat ...
... whole earth , as Velleius says , had scarce been sufficient for his victories , could not find a spot upon it at last for a grave . His body was burnt on the shore by one of his freed - men , with the planks of an old fishing - boat ...
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... whole , his life was rather admirable than amiable ; fit to be praised , rather than imitated . Middleton . CHARACTER OF JULIUS CESAR . CESAR was endowed with every great and noble quality , that could exalt human nature , and give a ...
... whole , his life was rather admirable than amiable ; fit to be praised , rather than imitated . Middleton . CHARACTER OF JULIUS CESAR . CESAR was endowed with every great and noble quality , that could exalt human nature , and give a ...
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... whole life he had no partner of his bed but his queen ; a most extraordinary virtue in one who had lived , even from his earliest youth , amidst all the licence of camps , the allure- ments of a court , and the seductions of sovereign ...
... whole life he had no partner of his bed but his queen ; a most extraordinary virtue in one who had lived , even from his earliest youth , amidst all the licence of camps , the allure- ments of a court , and the seductions of sovereign ...
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Page 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Page 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Page 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Page 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.