Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, 3권A.C. Armstrong & son, 1860 |
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... Voltaire . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be ... Voltaire's . Such high and various excellence moved the young prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire ...
... Voltaire . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be ... Voltaire's . Such high and various excellence moved the young prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire ...
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... Voltaire replied with exquisite grace and address . A correspondence followed , which may be studied with advantage by those who wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire ...
... Voltaire replied with exquisite grace and address . A correspondence followed , which may be studied with advantage by those who wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire ...
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... of two great treasons : perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the chief influence over the feeble Lewis . She determined to send an agent to Berlin ; and Voltaire was FREDERIC THE GREAT . 175.
... of two great treasons : perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the chief influence over the feeble Lewis . She determined to send an agent to Berlin ; and Voltaire was FREDERIC THE GREAT . 175.
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... Voltaire put into his Maj- esty's hands a paper on the state of . Europe , and received it back with verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has ...
... Voltaire put into his Maj- esty's hands a paper on the state of . Europe , and received it back with verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. But what the influence of Voltaire could not effect , the rapid progress of the Austrian arms effected . If it should be in the power of Maria Theresa and George the Second to dictate terms of ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. But what the influence of Voltaire could not effect , the rapid progress of the Austrian arms effected . If it should be in the power of Maria Theresa and George the Second to dictate terms of ...
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130 페이지 - ... had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
129 페이지 - The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
133 페이지 - The energy and pathos of the great orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration from the stern and - hostile Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling bottles were handed round; hysterical...
134 페이지 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English Nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
173 페이지 - You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, "than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease ? " "No, it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
128 페이지 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
8 페이지 - This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst all the cares of war, finance, and legislation, still pointed to Daylesford.
129 페이지 - ... where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended to give advice on points of law.
174 페이지 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
116 페이지 - Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns to the wild moor where the...