Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections : a New Series, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1873 |
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Pagina 7
... give credit to the whole narrative , since we think they would hardly have been mentioned unless they were true . ' Ars est celare artem . The effect would fail if they had a showy character , as if invented for effect . Homer's ...
... give credit to the whole narrative , since we think they would hardly have been mentioned unless they were true . ' Ars est celare artem . The effect would fail if they had a showy character , as if invented for effect . Homer's ...
Pagina 8
... give occasion for the remark of the Spar- tan , that , if the Persian arrows flew so thick as to intercept the sun , they should fight in the shade : enough also to elicit the touching reflection of Xerxes ' Lemprière's ' Classical ...
... give occasion for the remark of the Spar- tan , that , if the Persian arrows flew so thick as to intercept the sun , they should fight in the shade : enough also to elicit the touching reflection of Xerxes ' Lemprière's ' Classical ...
Pagina 11
... give his precise words ? According to Plutarch , Casca having struck the first blow , Cæsar turned upon him and laid hold of his sword . ' At the same time they both cried out the one in Latin , " Villain Casca , what dost thou mean ...
... give his precise words ? According to Plutarch , Casca having struck the first blow , Cæsar turned upon him and laid hold of his sword . ' At the same time they both cried out the one in Latin , " Villain Casca , what dost thou mean ...
Pagina 14
... gives up the twelve Paladins or Peers ; declaring that the idea is quite imaginary , and appears to take its rise from the supposition that every man of might ought to be attended by certain followers of commen- surate renown ; the ...
... gives up the twelve Paladins or Peers ; declaring that the idea is quite imaginary , and appears to take its rise from the supposition that every man of might ought to be attended by certain followers of commen- surate renown ; the ...
Pagina 16
... give up the story of the burnt cakes because it is not to be found in the extant fragments of his life by his friend Asser , but our faith is somewhat shaken in that of his venturing into the Danish camp in the disguise of a minstrel ...
... give up the story of the burnt cakes because it is not to be found in the extant fragments of his life by his friend Asser , but our faith is somewhat shaken in that of his venturing into the Danish camp in the disguise of a minstrel ...
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with ..., Volume 1 Abraham Hayward Volledige weergave - 1873 |
Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with ..., Volume 1 Abraham Hayward Volledige weergave - 1873 |
Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with ..., Volume 1 Abraham Hayward Volledige weergave - 1873 |
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Pagina 204 - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Pagina 128 - Deans-looking body,' as we Scotch say — and, if not handsome, certainly not ill-looking. Her conversation was as quiet as herself. One would never have guessed she could write her name ; whereas her father talked, not as if he could write nothing else, but as if nothing else was worth writing.
Pagina 24 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Pagina 45 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra...
Pagina 42 - It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed, and the feeling which it expressed. "Now," said Lord Nelson, "I can do no more.
Pagina 40 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
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Pagina 411 - A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle, (now with God,) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist.