Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits, with memoirs by A.T. Malkin]. |
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... less important particulars ; but his letters are no more than a type of the usual style of an inferior to a superior in the court in which he lived . He fell upon hard times , first the courtier of a princess whose thirst of praise and ...
... less important particulars ; but his letters are no more than a type of the usual style of an inferior to a superior in the court in which he lived . He fell upon hard times , first the courtier of a princess whose thirst of praise and ...
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... less addicted ; from such profitless toil as the " examination of the nature of heaven , of souls , of genii , of the elements , of the essence of fire , of the cause of fountains , of the ebb and flow of the tide , the shape of the ...
... less addicted ; from such profitless toil as the " examination of the nature of heaven , of souls , of genii , of the elements , of the essence of fire , of the cause of fountains , of the ebb and flow of the tide , the shape of the ...
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... after another , and the scrupulous fidelity with which he rejected them in succession , as they proved irrecon- cilable with the unerring test of observation . Not less remarkable is the singular good fortune by which , KEPLER . 17.
... after another , and the scrupulous fidelity with which he rejected them in succession , as they proved irrecon- cilable with the unerring test of observation . Not less remarkable is the singular good fortune by which , KEPLER . 17.
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... less than eleven ladies were successively the objects of his thoughts . After re- jecting , or being rejected , by the whole number , he at last settled on her who stood fifth in the list ; a woman of humble station , but , according to ...
... less than eleven ladies were successively the objects of his thoughts . After re- jecting , or being rejected , by the whole number , he at last settled on her who stood fifth in the list ; a woman of humble station , but , according to ...
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... less it be because it saves the Emperor's credit , who abandons me entirely , and , with all his frequent and recent orders in council , would suffer me to perish with hunger . " Poverty is a hard task - master ; yet Kepler should not ...
... less it be because it saves the Emperor's credit , who abandons me entirely , and , with all his frequent and recent orders in council , would suffer me to perish with hunger . " Poverty is a hard task - master ; yet Kepler should not ...
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Página 60 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Página 128 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Página 191 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Página 126 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Página 56 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Página 287 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Página 55 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Página 449 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Página 34 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Página 64 - Till then, our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their Tragedies were only Histories in dialogue ; and their Comedies followed the thread of any novel as they found it, no less implicitly than if it had been true history.