The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated Children, and of the Infancy of Persons who Have Been Illustrious for Their Virtues Or Talents. With Plates..Tabart and Company at the Juvenile Library, 157, New Bond Street., 1806 - 204페이지 |
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able acquaintance acquired admiration afterwards amuse appear astonished astronomy attained attention Baynard Binfield born Captain celebrated character child composition considerable Countess of Mar delight discover discoveries disposition Earl of Sussex early elegant eminent engaged Euclid's Elements excellence Fabius father formed friends Gainsborough genius gentleman Greek Greek languages guage Hanham Hartsocker holy orders HORATIO NELSON illustrious improvement ingenious instructions judgment juvenile kind King knowledge languages Latin Latin languages learning letter Majesty manner master mathematics ment mind Mirandula nature observed parents period person philosophy Picus Piero de Medici piety placed pleased poem poet Politian Pope powers praise Prince professor pursuits racter Royal says scholars sent ship Sir Isaac SIR WILLIAM PETTY soon spirit studies subjects talents tance taught ther THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH tion took tures uncommon University of Florence verse virtue worthy writing wrote young youth
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193 페이지 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
196 페이지 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
190 페이지 - I had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon them, to be sent to those places where the opinion was it might be soonest attained, and as the manner is was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended: whereof some were grave orators and historians, whose matter methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them...
159 페이지 - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his " Ode
185 페이지 - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
142 페이지 - Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.
185 페이지 - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate...
185 페이지 - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony deep his idle ship Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew, Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues; to the cordage glued The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.
19 페이지 - I had now gained the point I aimed at : and saw, that his reason taught him (though he could not so express it) that what begins to be must have a cause, and that what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance...
37 페이지 - It is an instrument of small bulk and price, easily made, and very durable, whereby any man, even at the first sight and handling, may write two resembling copies of the same thing at once, as serviceably and as fast (allowing two lines upon each page on setting the instruments) as by the ordinary way; of what nature, or in what character, or what matter soever, as paper, parchment, a book, be. the said writing ought to be made upon.