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Page 259 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 221 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 263 - I can answer for those two. It is a subject which works well, and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past — I told you my design in it was to teach us to love the world and our fellow-creatures better than we do — so it runs most upon those gentler passions and affections, which aid so much to it.
Page 360 - Optima nec dulces occurrent oscula nati Praeripere et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent. Non poteris factis florentibus esse, tuisque Praesidium. Misero misere' aiunt ' omnia ademit Una dies infesta tibi tot praemia vitae.' Illud in his rebus non addunt ' nec tibi earum Iam desiderium rerum super insidet una.
Page 292 - A pang shot through the child, that seemed to go from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet " Are you awake, Daisy ?•" " Yes, mamma,
Page 408 - ... solve senescentem mature sanus equum, ne peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat.
Page 127 - This was a trifling business in comparison to other circumstances; for, in speaking of the preservation of the game in these capitaineries, it must be observed that by game it must be understood whole droves of wild boars and herds of deer not confined by any wall or pale, but wandering at pleasure over the whole country to the destruction of crops, and to the peopling of the gallies by the wretched peasants who presumed to kill them in order to save that food which was to support their helpless...
Page 360 - Hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest non radii solis neque lucida tela diei discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.
Page 80 - If we emerge from this vast operation," he wrote in the Prospectus, " our principal debt will be to the chancellor Bacon, who sketched the plan of a universal dictionary of sciences and arts at a time when there were not, so to say, either arts or sciences.
Page 201 - Our opinions, our fashions, even our games, were adopted in France, a ray of national glory illuminated each individual, and every Englishman was supposed to be born a patriot and a philosopher.