Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, 2권B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120페이지 |
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... observed to ap- proach them ? Did not all the confular fe- nators , whofe deftruction you have so often plotted , quit immediately the part of the houfe where you thought proper to place yourself ? How are you able to bear all this ...
... observed to ap- proach them ? Did not all the confular fe- nators , whofe deftruction you have so often plotted , quit immediately the part of the houfe where you thought proper to place yourself ? How are you able to bear all this ...
679 페이지
... observed no bounds in the divifion of property ; who ' never attempted to feize the estate of another by quirks of law , fuborned evi- dence , or falfe oaths , but employed the more effectual means of regular troops , encampments , and ...
... observed no bounds in the divifion of property ; who ' never attempted to feize the estate of another by quirks of law , fuborned evi- dence , or falfe oaths , but employed the more effectual means of regular troops , encampments , and ...
718 페이지
... observed by comparing them with the epiftles of the beft and greateft , who flourished after- wards in Imperial Rome . Pliny's letters are juftly admired by men of taste : they fhew the scholar , the wit , the fine gentle- man ; yet we ...
... observed by comparing them with the epiftles of the beft and greateft , who flourished after- wards in Imperial Rome . Pliny's letters are juftly admired by men of taste : they fhew the scholar , the wit , the fine gentle- man ; yet we ...
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... observed in all their writers , from Cicero's time to the younger Pliny ; who carried it to its utmoft perfection , in his celebrated panegyric on the emperor Trajan ; which , as it is juftly admired for the elegance of diction , the ...
... observed in all their writers , from Cicero's time to the younger Pliny ; who carried it to its utmoft perfection , in his celebrated panegyric on the emperor Trajan ; which , as it is juftly admired for the elegance of diction , the ...
723 페이지
... observed ; for in letters of compliment , condolence , or recommen . dation , or where he is foliciting any point of importance , he adapts his arguments to the occafion ; and ufes fuch as would induce his friend the most readily to ...
... observed ; for in letters of compliment , condolence , or recommen . dation , or where he is foliciting any point of importance , he adapts his arguments to the occafion ; and ufes fuch as would induce his friend the most readily to ...
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691 페이지 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
791 페이지 - When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, he was lying in his bed, with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambric handkerchief beside it.
1041 페이지 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks...
884 페이지 - ... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same...
698 페이지 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
791 페이지 - Scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will shew it thee to-morrow: In the mean time we may depend upon it, Trim, for our comfort, said my uncle Toby, that God Almighty is so good and just a governor of the world, that if we have but done our duties in it, — it will never be enquired into, whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one: I hope not; said the corporal But go on, Trim, said my uncle Toby, with thy story.
842 페이지 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
698 페이지 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
789 페이지 - I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby : and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, — and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more, if they will do him good. Though I am persuaded...
1022 페이지 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.