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Pàgina 22
... nature , slow in its resolves , and languishing in its executions . The use therefore of the passions is to stir it up , and to put it upon action , to awaken the understanding , to enforce the will , and to make the whole man more ...
... nature , slow in its resolves , and languishing in its executions . The use therefore of the passions is to stir it up , and to put it upon action , to awaken the understanding , to enforce the will , and to make the whole man more ...
Pàgina 23
... natural inclinations in a glorious and laudable course of action . For we may farther observe , that men of the ... nature , and accomplished by their own industry , how few are there whose virtues are not obscured by the ignorance ...
... natural inclinations in a glorious and laudable course of action . For we may farther observe , that men of the ... nature , and accomplished by their own industry , how few are there whose virtues are not obscured by the ignorance ...
Pàgina 24
... natural per- verseness of temper grow wary in their praises of one , who sets too great a value on them , lest they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and by consequence remove him to a greater distance from themselves ...
... natural per- verseness of temper grow wary in their praises of one , who sets too great a value on them , lest they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and by consequence remove him to a greater distance from themselves ...
Pàgina 25
... nature , or of wariness , as not to gratify or sooth the vanity of the ambitious man ; and since this very thirst after fame naturally betrays him into such indecencies as are a lessening to his reputation , and is itself looked upon as ...
... nature , or of wariness , as not to gratify or sooth the vanity of the ambitious man ; and since this very thirst after fame naturally betrays him into such indecencies as are a lessening to his reputation , and is itself looked upon as ...
Pàgina 29
... nature casts a shade on all the other beauties , and darkens the whole character . How difficult therefore is it to preserve a great name , when he that has acquired it is so obnoxious to such little weaknesses and infirmities as are no ...
... nature casts a shade on all the other beauties , and darkens the whole character . How difficult therefore is it to preserve a great name , when he that has acquired it is so obnoxious to such little weaknesses and infirmities as are no ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pàgina 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Pàgina 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Pàgina 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Pàgina 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Pàgina 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Pàgina 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Pàgina 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Pàgina 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Pàgina 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.