The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Demosthenes , Plato , and of other celebrated writ- ers of the same rank , would find they bore not the least proportion to the sublimities and excellences with which their works abound . ' Z. " I am , sir , " Your humble servant , 1 ...
... Demosthenes , Plato , and of other celebrated writ- ers of the same rank , would find they bore not the least proportion to the sublimities and excellences with which their works abound . ' Z. " I am , sir , " Your humble servant , 1 ...
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... Demosthenes excelled in oratory , whether Hannibal lost Italy by his own negligence or the corruption of his countrymen . I have no skill in controversial learning , nor can con- ceive why so many volumes should have been writ- ten upon ...
... Demosthenes excelled in oratory , whether Hannibal lost Italy by his own negligence or the corruption of his countrymen . I have no skill in controversial learning , nor can con- ceive why so many volumes should have been writ- ten upon ...
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... Demosthenes and Tully . We have discourses , indeed , that may be admired for their perspicuity , purity , and elegance ; but can produce none that abound in a sublime which whirls away the auditor like a mighty torrent , and pierces ...
... Demosthenes and Tully . We have discourses , indeed , that may be admired for their perspicuity , purity , and elegance ; but can produce none that abound in a sublime which whirls away the auditor like a mighty torrent , and pierces ...
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... said , " The age will never again return , when a Pericles , after walking with Plato in a por- tico built by Phidias , and painted by Apelles , might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes , or a 208 127 . ADVENTURER .
... said , " The age will never again return , when a Pericles , after walking with Plato in a por- tico built by Phidias , and painted by Apelles , might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes , or a 208 127 . ADVENTURER .
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James Ferguson. repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes , or a tra- gedy of Sophocles . " I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion , that the moderns excel the ancients in all the arts of Ridicule , and assign the ...
James Ferguson. repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes , or a tra- gedy of Sophocles . " I shall next examine the other part of Addison's assertion , that the moderns excel the ancients in all the arts of Ridicule , and assign the ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Página 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Página 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Página 151 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Página 152 - No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Página 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Página 93 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Página 149 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Página 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.