English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1896 - 257 pagina's |
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Pagina 25
... learning , because he did not believe they were true ; " for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies , for about a twelvemonth past , into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece , Guy of Warwick , the Seven ...
... learning , because he did not believe they were true ; " for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies , for about a twelvemonth past , into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece , Guy of Warwick , the Seven ...
Pagina 31
... learning and difficulty . Sir Jeoffery Notch , who is the oldest of the club , has been in possession of the right - hand chair time out of mind , and is the only man among us that has the liberty 1 A tavern in Shire Lane , near the new ...
... learning and difficulty . Sir Jeoffery Notch , who is the oldest of the club , has been in possession of the right - hand chair time out of mind , and is the only man among us that has the liberty 1 A tavern in Shire Lane , near the new ...
Pagina 46
... learning , great sanctity of life , and the most exact good breeding . He has the misfortune to be of a very weak constitution , and conse- quently cannot accept of such cares and business as preferments in his function would oblige him ...
... learning , great sanctity of life , and the most exact good breeding . He has the misfortune to be of a very weak constitution , and conse- quently cannot accept of such cares and business as preferments in his function would oblige him ...
Pagina 59
... learning , which Phoebus and the Muses had given to this first stanza , you may observe , how it falls all of a sudden into the familiar , ' in petticoats ! ' " Let us now , " says I , " enter upon the second stanza ; I find the first ...
... learning , which Phoebus and the Muses had given to this first stanza , you may observe , how it falls all of a sudden into the familiar , ' in petticoats ! ' " Let us now , " says I , " enter upon the second stanza ; I find the first ...
Pagina 98
... learning , which formerly were looked upon as qualifications for a writer . If a man of wit , who died forty years ago , were to rise from the grave on purpose , how would he be able to read this letter ? and after he had got through ...
... learning , which formerly were looked upon as qualifications for a writer . If a man of wit , who died forty years ago , were to rise from the grave on purpose , how would he be able to read this letter ? and after he had got through ...
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Pagina 1 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Pagina 1 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Pagina 1 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 27 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pagina 38 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Pagina 39 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Pagina 233 - Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grand-children, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us...
Pagina 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Pagina 37 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger.
Pagina 65 - There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter. Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes.