Chesterfield and His CriticsG. Routledge & sons, Limited, 1925 - 328 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... virtue as something far worse ; to be or to strive to be what pride would have us seem , and to live worthily within the limits severally prescribed by nature and fortune - all this will the study of Chesterfield's philosophy tend to ...
... virtue as something far worse ; to be or to strive to be what pride would have us seem , and to live worthily within the limits severally prescribed by nature and fortune - all this will the study of Chesterfield's philosophy tend to ...
Pagina 4
... virtue and honour , before your understanding was capable of showing you their beauty and utility . Those principles , which you then got , like your grammar rules , only by rote , are now , I am per- suaded , fixed and confirmed by ...
... virtue and honour , before your understanding was capable of showing you their beauty and utility . Those principles , which you then got , like your grammar rules , only by rote , are now , I am per- suaded , fixed and confirmed by ...
Pagina 11
... Philistines have had their revenge . The injustice of which he was un- 1 World , No. 189 ( see p . 258 post ) . Essays and Studies , p . 234 . doubtedly guilty in not sufficiently recognizing their robust virtues as ESSAYIST II.
... Philistines have had their revenge . The injustice of which he was un- 1 World , No. 189 ( see p . 258 post ) . Essays and Studies , p . 234 . doubtedly guilty in not sufficiently recognizing their robust virtues as ESSAYIST II.
Pagina 12
... virtues as of its deficiencies . That he devoted little attention in his writings to the former was simply because he ... virtue are taken for granted . His objects are to fill up the gaps , to remedy the imper- fections , to adorn with ...
... virtues as of its deficiencies . That he devoted little attention in his writings to the former was simply because he ... virtue are taken for granted . His objects are to fill up the gaps , to remedy the imper- fections , to adorn with ...
Pagina 14
... virtues with native female softness . Women , while untainted by affectation , have a natural cheerfulness of mind , tenderness and benignity of heart , which justly endears them to us , either to animate our joys or soothe our sorrows ...
... virtues with native female softness . Women , while untainted by affectation , have a natural cheerfulness of mind , tenderness and benignity of heart , which justly endears them to us , either to animate our joys or soothe our sorrows ...
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A. C. Stanhope affairs affection April August believe bien Bishop of Waterford Blackheath Bradshaw Carnarvon character Chester Chesterfield's Letters Churton Collins Common Sense Dorimant Duke of Newcastle Earl edition endeavour England Ernst expressed faithfull fashion favour February February 9 field's folly French friendship George George II give godson good-breeding Hague Harrington honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humour Ibid Ireland Johnson King Lady least live London Lord Carnarvon Lord Chesterfield Lordship Madame de Monconseil Mahon Majesty Marchmont Maty mean Memoirs ment mind moral nature never Newcastle November October opinion opposition Papers Holland passion perhaps philosophy pleasure political prejudices quoted reason regard resignation ridiculous Sandwich seems sentiments servant Sir Robert Walpole Solomon Dayrolles sure tell thing tout Townshend true truth virtue Walpole's wish word writing written wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 18 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Pagina 10 - Wit, my lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed hut a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind...
Pagina 178 - With a person as disagreeable as it was possible for a human figure to be without being deformed, he affected following many women of the first beauty and the most in fashion...
Pagina 233 - Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator.
Pagina 178 - On ne sait bien souvent quelle mouche le pique. Mais c'est un jeune fou qui se croit tout permis, Et qui pour un bon mot va perdre vingt amis.
Pagina 282 - I reflect back upon what I have seen, what I have heard, and what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry, and bustle...
Pagina 29 - I have offered to so good a lady, with a sincere remorse, and a hearty contrition, can but obtain the least glance of compassion, I am too happy.— Ah, madam, there was a time I— but let it be forgotten— I confess I have deservedly forfeited the high place I once held of sighing at your feet. Nay, kill me not, by turning from me in disdain.
Pagina 261 - Menagiana a very pretty story of one of these angry gentlemen, which sets their extravagancy in a very ridiculous light. Two gentlemen were riding together, one of whom, who was a choleric one, happened to be mounted on a high-mettled horse. The horse grew a little troublesome, at which the rider grew very angry, and whipped and spurred him with great fury ; to which the horse, almost as wrong-headed as his master, replied •with kicking and plunging. The companion, concerned for the danger, and...
Pagina 12 - I may justly infer from it, to what a degree the accomplishment of good-breeding must adorn and enforce virtue ' and truth, when it can thus soften the outrages and deformity of vice and falsehood. I am sorry to be obliged to confess that my native country is not perhaps the seat of the most perfect good-breeding, though I really believe that it yields to none in hearty and sincere civility...
Pagina 178 - He was very short, disproportioned, thick, and clumsily made ; had a broad, rough-featured, ugly face, with black teeth, and a head big enough for a Polyphemus.* One Ben Ashurst, who said few good things, though admired for many, told Lord Chesterfield once that he was like a stunted giant — which was a humorous idea and really apposite.