Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 |
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... Greek sentence or scan a verse ; and I have fallen on the very Index from which he drew out his forlorn hope on the parade . This is incomparably the most impudent fellow I have met with in the course of my reading , which has lain ...
... Greek sentence or scan a verse ; and I have fallen on the very Index from which he drew out his forlorn hope on the parade . This is incomparably the most impudent fellow I have met with in the course of my reading , which has lain ...
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... Greek in my head , but . . . he then claps the forefinger to the side of his nose , turns his eye slowly upward , and looks com- passionately and calmly . Southey . Come , Mr. Porson , grant him his merits : no critic is better ...
... Greek in my head , but . . . he then claps the forefinger to the side of his nose , turns his eye slowly upward , and looks com- passionately and calmly . Southey . Come , Mr. Porson , grant him his merits : no critic is better ...
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... Greeks than a friend of mine was , who resided in Athens to acquire the language . He assured me that beauty there was in bud at thirteen , in full blossom at fifteen , losing a leaf or two every day at seventeen , trembling on the ...
... Greeks than a friend of mine was , who resided in Athens to acquire the language . He assured me that beauty there was in bud at thirteen , in full blossom at fifteen , losing a leaf or two every day at seventeen , trembling on the ...
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... of paradox , that whatever is good in poetry is common to all good poets , however wide may be the diversity of manner . Nothing 肇 can be more dissimilar than the three Greek tragedians 36 [ CONVERSATIONS , WORKS OF LANDOR .
... of paradox , that whatever is good in poetry is common to all good poets , however wide may be the diversity of manner . Nothing 肇 can be more dissimilar than the three Greek tragedians 36 [ CONVERSATIONS , WORKS OF LANDOR .
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... Greek or countryman . These are the three Romans , the least amiable of nations , and ( one excepted ) the least sincere , with whom I should have liked best to spend an evening . Southey . Ennius and old Cato , I am afraid , would have ...
... Greek or countryman . These are the three Romans , the least amiable of nations , and ( one excepted ) the least sincere , with whom I should have liked best to spend an evening . Southey . Ennius and old Cato , I am afraid , would have ...
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Page 383 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Page 518 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 375 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 366 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
Page 443 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 374 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 127 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 382 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 386 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
Page 44 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...