Self-consciousness of Noted PersonsTicknor, 1886 - 187페이지 |
기타 출판본 - 모두 보기
자주 나오는 단어 및 구문
ALEXANDRE DUMAS ambition answered appears asked Bacon BEN JONSON Boswell Brougham Burke called CARDINAL Châteaubriand Chatham Cicero claim Cobbett conceit Count Cavour Dante Danton death declared Duke Edinburgh eloquence eminent England English epitaph Erskine exclaimed fame father flattered French genius give Goldsmith Henry honor HONORE MIRABEAU hope immortal James Boswell John Johnson Justice King lady letter literary live Lord Brougham Lord Byron Lord Chancellor Louis LOUIS-ADOLPHE THIERS loved Macaulay Madame Madame de Staël merits Metternich Milton Napoleon never once orator painter Parliament perhaps Piron poem poet poetry politics Pope POPE JULIUS II posterity praise Prince PROSPER MÉRIMÉE published replied reputation says Shakspeare Sir Godfrey speak speech style things thou thought tion told truth vanity verses VICTOR HUGO Voltaire wish words Wordsworth writes wrote
인기 인용구
xvi 페이지 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
93 페이지 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
92 페이지 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
91 페이지 - Me, of these Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed ; and much they may if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
119 페이지 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
157 페이지 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
2 페이지 - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person: for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
80 페이지 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
34 페이지 - ... Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ; And millions in those solitudes...
44 페이지 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...