Bentley, Volumen13Harper & brothers, 1899 - 221 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 10
Página 2
... - ful after the Restoration than it had been before , to judge from that lively picture in North's " Lives " of the school at Bury St. Edmund's , where the master - a staunch Royal- ist - was forced , " in the dregs of 2 [ CHAP . BENTLEY .
... - ful after the Restoration than it had been before , to judge from that lively picture in North's " Lives " of the school at Bury St. Edmund's , where the master - a staunch Royal- ist - was forced , " in the dregs of 2 [ CHAP . BENTLEY .
Página 76
... lives , join'd in their deaths ; so closely join'd that Charon would mistake them both for one , and waft them over Styx for half his fare . " When this was first pub- lished , Bentley's second Dissertation had been five years before ...
... lives , join'd in their deaths ; so closely join'd that Charon would mistake them both for one , and waft them over Styx for half his fare . " When this was first pub- lished , Bentley's second Dissertation had been five years before ...
Página 101
... lives would not bear scrutiny , they were at most two or three , usually non - resident , and always without influence . It may safely be said that no large society of that time , in either University , would have sustained an ...
... lives would not bear scrutiny , they were at most two or three , usually non - resident , and always without influence . It may safely be said that no large society of that time , in either University , would have sustained an ...
Página 103
... live peaceably with them , and never make any farther Demands , you had prevailed with the Senior Fellows to allow you several hundred Pounds for your Lodge , more than they first intended or agreed for , to the great Dissatisfac- tion ...
... live peaceably with them , and never make any farther Demands , you had prevailed with the Senior Fellows to allow you several hundred Pounds for your Lodge , more than they first intended or agreed for , to the great Dissatisfac- tion ...
Página 141
... live , and that , too , after the battle at Lake Thrasimene ; " but , to say no more , que forbids this . And then he rejects the whole line , " Accepisse arces . " Why ? Because " yokes " are 7 * IX . ] 141 OTHER CLASSICAL STUDIES ...
... live , and that , too , after the battle at Lake Thrasimene ; " but , to say no more , que forbids this . And then he rejects the whole line , " Accepisse arces . " Why ? Because " yokes " are 7 * IX . ] 141 OTHER CLASSICAL STUDIES ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Æsop ancient appeared Atterbury Bentley's Bentley's Dissertation Bishop of Ely Boyle Lectures Boyle's Callimachus Cambridge Casaubon century Christ Church classical Colbatch collated conjecture criticism Cumberland death Discourse of Free-thinking Divinity Dunciad edition editor emendations English Epistles essay F. A. Wolf Fellows friends George Smalridge gives Graevius Greek Testament Homer honour Iliad John Joshua Barnes King's labours learning Letter to Mill Letters of Phalaris ley's Library literary literature lives Lodge London Malelas Manilius manuscript Master of Trinity metre Milton mind modern nature Newton notes original Oxford Paradise Lost passage person Phalaris poem poet preface printed prose published R. C. JEBB real Bentley Regius remarks reply restore Richard Richard Cumberland says Bentley scholar scholarship shows Statutes Stesichorus Stillingfleet studies style Terence things thought tion Trinity College University verses Visitor volumes whole words Wotton writes written wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 203 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With Portraits.
Página 24 - ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers" (3d letter to Bentley, 5th February 1692-93).
Página 24 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Página 168 - The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 138 - Scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to Verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it Prose again. Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your Better: Author of something yet more great than Letter; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'er-tops them all.
Página 24 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 168 - Like night and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Página 190 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great Vision of the guarded Mount Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 187 - God, and the edification of my fellow creatures ; but the wit and genius of those old heathens beguiled me, and as I despaired of raising myself up to their standard, upon fair ground, I thought the only chance I had of looking over their heads was to get upon their shoulders.
Página 26 - I had considered it very little before your letter put me upon it, and therefore trouble you with a line or two more about it, if this comes not too late for your use. " In my former I represented that the diurnal rotations of...