The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Volume 2J. Mawman, 1816 - Great Britain |
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... doth assign you , earnestly and the time I know he will so limit , as shall be both sufficient for your learning , and safe for your health . And mark the sense and the matter of that you read , as well as the words . So shall you both ...
... doth assign you , earnestly and the time I know he will so limit , as shall be both sufficient for your learning , and safe for your health . And mark the sense and the matter of that you read , as well as the words . So shall you both ...
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... doth in time bring a man to that baseness of mind , that he can scarcely tell how to tell a truth , or to avoid lying even when he hath no colour or necessity for it : and in time he comes to such a pass , that as another man cannot ...
... doth in time bring a man to that baseness of mind , that he can scarcely tell how to tell a truth , or to avoid lying even when he hath no colour or necessity for it : and in time he comes to such a pass , that as another man cannot ...
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... doth not endeavour to make men good , but that their evil hurt not others , having no care , so he be a good citizen , how bad a man he be : therefore , as our wickedness maketh him necessary , and necessity maketh him honourable , so ...
... doth not endeavour to make men good , but that their evil hurt not others , having no care , so he be a good citizen , how bad a man he be : therefore , as our wickedness maketh him necessary , and necessity maketh him honourable , so ...
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... doth understand . On the other side , the Historian wanting the precept is so tied , not to what should be but to what is , to the particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things , that his example draweth no ...
... doth understand . On the other side , the Historian wanting the precept is so tied , not to what should be but to what is , to the particular truth of things and not to the general reason of things , that his example draweth no ...
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... doth indeed help little to the happiness of life ) are the only people , which as by their justice and providence give neither cause nor hope to their neighbours to annoy them , so are they not stirred with false praise to trouble ...
... doth indeed help little to the happiness of life ) are the only people , which as by their justice and providence give neither cause nor hope to their neighbours to annoy them , so are they not stirred with false praise to trouble ...
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Page 398 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,— In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs,— All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 397 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Page 484 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Page 311 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 305 - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions...
Page 400 - Their purpose is ambition, Their practice, only hate ; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell them that brave it most, They beg for more by spending Who in their greatest cost Seek nothing but commending ; And if they make reply, Spare not to give the lie.
Page 309 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and, in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.
Page 99 - We have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery ; but, I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Page 316 - Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
Page 314 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.