Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... Italians , even in their epic poetry , are full of it . Monsieur Boileau , who formed himself upon the ancient poets , has everywhere rejected it with scorn . If we look after mixed wit among the Greek writers , we shall find it nowhere ...
... Italians , even in their epic poetry , are full of it . Monsieur Boileau , who formed himself upon the ancient poets , has everywhere rejected it with scorn . If we look after mixed wit among the Greek writers , we shall find it nowhere ...
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... Italy , because the action proposed to be celebrated was that of his settling him- self in Latium . But because it was necessary for the reader to know what had happened to him in the taking of Troy , and in the preceding parts of his ...
... Italy , because the action proposed to be celebrated was that of his settling him- self in Latium . But because it was necessary for the reader to know what had happened to him in the taking of Troy , and in the preceding parts of his ...
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... Italy carried on through all the oppositions in his way to it , both by sea and land . The ac- tion in Milton excels ( I think ) both the former in this particular : we see it contrived in hell , executed upon earth , and punished by ...
... Italy carried on through all the oppositions in his way to it , both by sea and land . The ac- tion in Milton excels ( I think ) both the former in this particular : we see it contrived in hell , executed upon earth , and punished by ...
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... Italian painting , as Homer was of the ancient epic , and Dante of the great style in modern poetry . None but a colossal ... Italy as immortal as the arms of the legions did the an- cient . But the very grandeur of his conceptions , the ...
... Italian painting , as Homer was of the ancient epic , and Dante of the great style in modern poetry . None but a colossal ... Italy as immortal as the arms of the legions did the an- cient . But the very grandeur of his conceptions , the ...
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... Italy , was born at Oneglia , October 21st , 1846. From 1865 to 1870 , he served in the Italian army from which he retired to devote himself to literature . His books of travel have been extensively translated , - a fact due chiefly to ...
... Italy , was born at Oneglia , October 21st , 1846. From 1865 to 1870 , he served in the Italian army from which he retired to devote himself to literature . His books of travel have been extensively translated , - a fact due chiefly to ...
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Seite 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Seite 33 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Seite 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Seite 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Seite 53 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Seite 56 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Seite 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Seite 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Seite 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...