The bee. Essays. An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsJohn Murray, 1837 |
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Pàgina xi
... truth of the pathetic lines of his son- " Vain transitory splendours ! Could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! The front , including a wing , extends , as nearly as could be judged by pacing it , sixty - eight feet ...
... truth of the pathetic lines of his son- " Vain transitory splendours ! Could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! The front , including a wing , extends , as nearly as could be judged by pacing it , sixty - eight feet ...
Pàgina 18
... truth is , I shall never be able to acquire a power of expressing myself with ease in any language but my own ; and out of my own country , the highest charac- ter I can ever acquire is that of being a philosophic vaga- bond . When I ...
... truth is , I shall never be able to acquire a power of expressing myself with ease in any language but my own ; and out of my own country , the highest charac- ter I can ever acquire is that of being a philosophic vaga- bond . When I ...
Pàgina 20
... truths , they were at once re- ceived with opposition and contempt . The English , it is true , studied , understood , and consequently admired them ; it was very different on the Continent . Fontenelle , who seemed to preside over the ...
... truths , they were at once re- ceived with opposition and contempt . The English , it is true , studied , understood , and consequently admired them ; it was very different on the Continent . Fontenelle , who seemed to preside over the ...
Pàgina 21
... truth on his side , carried his cause . Almost all the learning of the English , till very lately , was conveyed in the language of France . The writings of Maupertuis spread the reputation of his master Newton , and by a happy fortune ...
... truth on his side , carried his cause . Almost all the learning of the English , till very lately , was conveyed in the language of France . The writings of Maupertuis spread the reputation of his master Newton , and by a happy fortune ...
Pàgina 23
... truth , I do not find they have a greater aversion to fine clothes than the women of any other coun- try whatsoever . I cannot fancy that a shopkeeper's wife in Cheapside has a greater tenderness for the fortune of her husband than a ...
... truth , I do not find they have a greater aversion to fine clothes than the women of any other coun- try whatsoever . I cannot fancy that a shopkeeper's wife in Cheapside has a greater tenderness for the fortune of her husband than a ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Pàgina 296 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Pàgina 317 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pàgina 525 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Pàgina 274 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit, et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit : eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.
Pàgina 303 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pàgina 424 - The author, when unpatronked by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much, as possible.
Pàgina 270 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Pàgina 424 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Pàgina 69 - ... becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days.