Gramática inglesa reducida a veinte y dos leccionesLib Garnier, 1851 - 280 pages |
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Page 5 - Verbo sustantivo es el que signifícala existencia de las cosas ó personas, como : ser, estar, haber. Activo ó transitivo es aquel cuya accion y significacion pasa á otra cosa, que es su término, con preposicion, ó sin ella, como : amar á Dios , aborrecer el vicio. Neutro ó intransitivo es aquel , cuya accion ó significacion no pasa á otra cosa, como : nacer, morir. Recíproco es aquel, que empezando á expresarse por un nombre ó pronombre, que da accion y movimiento al verbo, vuelve su...
Page 202 - ... for court poets ; since the very mention of him must have been a satire on the prince; especially while Antony lived; among the sycophants of whose court, it was fashionable to insult his memory by all the methods of calumny that wit and malice could invent : nay Virgil, on an occasion that could hardly fail of bringing him to his mind, instead of doing justice to his merit, chose to do an injustice rather to Rome itself, by yielding the superiority of eloquence to the Greeks, which they themselves...
Page 202 - ... the writers of that age ; and why his name is not so much as mentioned, either by Horace or Virgil. For though his character would have furnished a glorious subject for many noble lines, yet it was no subject for court poets ; since the very mention of him must have been a satire on the prince; especially while Antony lived; among the sycophants of whose court, it was fashionable to insult his memory by all the methods of calumny that wit and malice could invent : nay Virgil, on an occasion that...
Page 206 - Barbero hizo de suerte que el cabrero cogió debajo de sí a don Quijote, sobre el cual llovió tanto número de mojicones, que del rostro del pobre caballero llovía tanta sangre como del suyo.
Page 190 - Seal it with my cipher or coat of arms. What wax shall I put to it? Put either red or black, no matter which. Have you put the date? I believe I have, but I have not signed it.
Page 204 - From this period all the Roman writers, whether poets or historians, seem to vie with each other in celebrating the praises of Cicero, as the most illustrious of all their patriots, and the parent of the Roman wit and eloquence, who had done more honour to his country by his writings than all their conquerors by their arms, and extended the bounds of...
Page 202 - Romans for many ages after it ; and was delivered down to posterity, with all its circumstances, as one of the most affecting and memorable events of their history : so that the spot on which it happened, seems to have been visited by travellers with a kind of religious reverence '. The odium of it fell chiefly on Antony ; yet it left a...
Page 206 - ... -Señor, /.quién es este hombre, que tal talle tiene y de tal manera habla? -/.Quién ha de ser -respondió el barbero- sino el famoso don Quijote de la Mancha, desfacedor de agravios, enderezador de tuertos, el amparo de las doncellas, el asombro de los gigantes y el vencedor de las batallas?
Page 206 - Quijote, y asiéndole del cuello con entrambas manos, no dudara de ahogarle, si Sancho Panza no llegara en aquel punto, y le asiera por las espaldas, y diera con él encima de la mesa, quebrando platos, rompiendo tazas, y derramando y esparciendo cuanto en ella estaba.
Page 204 - Thou hast done nothing, Antony ; hast done nothing, I say, by setting a price on that divine and illustrious head, and, by a detestable reward, procuring the death of so great a consul and preserver of the republic. Thou hast snatched from Cicero a troublesome being ; a declining age ; a life more miserable under thy dominion than death itself; but so far from diminishing the glory of his deeds and sayings, thou hast increased it.