Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator"W.P. Nimmo, 1864 - 318 páginas |
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... shew how those parts of life which are exercised in study , reading , and the pursuits of knowledge , are long , but not tedious , and by that means discover a method of lengthening our lives , and at the same time of turning all the ...
... shew how those parts of life which are exercised in study , reading , and the pursuits of knowledge , are long , but not tedious , and by that means discover a method of lengthening our lives , and at the same time of turning all the ...
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... shew that , when a man of wit makes us laugh , it is by betraying some oddness or infirmity in his own char- acter , or in the representation which he makes of others ; and that when we laugh at a brute , or even at an inanimate thing ...
... shew that , when a man of wit makes us laugh , it is by betraying some oddness or infirmity in his own char- acter , or in the representation which he makes of others ; and that when we laugh at a brute , or even at an inanimate thing ...
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... shews us , that this unworthy treatment made an impression upon his mind though he had been too wise to discover it . When Julius Cæsar was lampooned by Catullus , he invited him to supper , and treated him with such a generous civility ...
... shews us , that this unworthy treatment made an impression upon his mind though he had been too wise to discover it . When Julius Cæsar was lampooned by Catullus , he invited him to supper , and treated him with such a generous civility ...
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... shew me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant . " The genius making me no answer , I turned about to address myself to him a second time ...
... shew me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant . " The genius making me no answer , I turned about to address myself to him a second time ...
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... shews itself after a different manner . In the first , it is like a rich soil in a happy climate , that produces a whole wilderness of noble plants rising in a thousand beautiful landscapes , without any certain order or regularity . In ...
... shews itself after a different manner . In the first , it is like a rich soil in a happy climate , that produces a whole wilderness of noble plants rising in a thousand beautiful landscapes , without any certain order or regularity . In ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acrostic actions admiration advantage Æneid agreeable ALLEGORY ambition animal appear atheist Avarice beautiful bewitching black tower body burlesque cast character cheerfulness Cicero colours consider conversation creatures delight desire discourse discover Divine drachmas endeavour entertaining evil fable fame fancy filled folly friends genius give greater hand happy heart heaven HESIOD honour human nature ideas Iliad imagination infinitely Jupiter kind laugh laughter live look mankind manner mentioned mind Mirth never notion objects observed occasion ourselves Ovid pain particular passions perfection perpetual person philosopher Pindar Plato pleasing pleasure Plutus poet poverty present proper raise reader reason receive reflect religion reputation ridicule says secret sense shew short sider sight Sir Francis Bacon Sir Roger l'Estrange Socrates soul species temper things thou thought tion truth turn vanity vice Virgil virtue virtuous whole wisdom words writing Xenophon
Pasajes populares
Página 201 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Página 263 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 66 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 213 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 25 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Página 210 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Página 200 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 116 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 268 - On the contrary, a spacious horizon is an image of liberty, where the eye has room to range abroad, to expatiate at large on the immensity of its views, and to lose itself amidst the variety of objects that offer themselves to its observation.
Página 67 - Ten thousand, thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.