A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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Page 45
... followed by another worthless rogue , who flung away his modesty instead of his ignorance . When the whole race of mankind had thus cast their burdens , the phantom which had been so busy on this occasion , seeing me an idle spectator ...
... followed by another worthless rogue , who flung away his modesty instead of his ignorance . When the whole race of mankind had thus cast their burdens , the phantom which had been so busy on this occasion , seeing me an idle spectator ...
Page 93
... followed against the persuasions of Bembo , to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end - that were a toilsome vanity ; but to be an interpreter , and ...
... followed against the persuasions of Bembo , to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end - that were a toilsome vanity ; but to be an interpreter , and ...
Page 95
... followed their language , he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours . If I would compare him with Shak- speare , I must acknowledge him the more correct poet , but Shakspeare the greater wit . Shakspeare was the Homer , or father ...
... followed their language , he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours . If I would compare him with Shak- speare , I must acknowledge him the more correct poet , but Shakspeare the greater wit . Shakspeare was the Homer , or father ...
Page 97
... followed in those places which tions . In short , they who have called Lucretius has most laboured , and some him the torture of the grammarians , of his very lines he has transplanted into might also have called him the plague of his ...
... followed in those places which tions . In short , they who have called Lucretius has most laboured , and some him the torture of the grammarians , of his very lines he has transplanted into might also have called him the plague of his ...
Page 126
... followed that when a man laid aside his Greek and Latin books , he forgot also all that he had ever gained from them . This , however , is so far from being the case , that even where the results of a classical education are least ...
... followed that when a man laid aside his Greek and Latin books , he forgot also all that he had ever gained from them . This , however , is so far from being the case , that even where the results of a classical education are least ...
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