BentleyMacmillan, 1882 - 224 páginas |
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... ( iam ab adolescentia ) , is too vague to prove anything . Monk remarks that there were no prizes for classics at Cambridge then . It may be observed , however , that there was one very important prize - the Craven BENTLEY . [ CHAP .
... ( iam ab adolescentia ) , is too vague to prove anything . Monk remarks that there were no prizes for classics at Cambridge then . It may be observed , however , that there was one very important prize - the Craven BENTLEY . [ CHAP .
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... proved the authorship of the chronicle - mutilated though it was at both ends - by showing that a passage of it is elsewhere quoted as from the chronicle of Malelas . Edmund Chilmead - a man re- markable for his attainments in ...
... proved the authorship of the chronicle - mutilated though it was at both ends - by showing that a passage of it is elsewhere quoted as from the chronicle of Malelas . Edmund Chilmead - a man re- markable for his attainments in ...
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... proves this emendation , as certain as it is wonderful , by quoting a passage from Damascius - the last great Neo- platonist , who lived in the early part of the sixth century , and wrote a treatise called " Questions and Answers on ...
... proves this emendation , as certain as it is wonderful , by quoting a passage from Damascius - the last great Neo- platonist , who lived in the early part of the sixth century , and wrote a treatise called " Questions and Answers on ...
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... proves from a scholiast on the Frogs of Aristophanes . But the scholiast himself needs correction : who says that Euripides introduced Aeropè in The Cretans . Here he is confounding The Cretans with another lost play of Euripides ...
... proves from a scholiast on the Frogs of Aristophanes . But the scholiast himself needs correction : who says that Euripides introduced Aeropè in The Cretans . Here he is confounding The Cretans with another lost play of Euripides ...
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... prove - must , no doubt , have meant that ; and rec- ommends him to think more of logic . Sometimes it is the modern reader whom Bentley addresses , as if begging him to be calm in the face of some tremendous blunder just committed by ...
... prove - must , no doubt , have meant that ; and rec- ommends him to think more of logic . Sometimes it is the modern reader whom Bentley addresses , as if begging him to be calm in the face of some tremendous blunder just committed by ...
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Æsop ancient appeared Aristophanes atheism Bentley's Bentley's Dissertation Bishop of Ely Boyle Lectures Boyle's brazen bull Callimachus Cambridge Casaubon century Christ Church classical Colbatch collated conjecture controversy copy criticism Cumberland death digamma Dissertation on Phalaris Divinity Dunciad edition editor emendations English Epistles essay Euripides F. A. Wolf Fellows friends give Graevius Greek Homer honour Horace Iliad John King's labours Lachmann Latin learning Letter to Mill Letters of Phalaris ley's Library literary literature living Lodge London Malelas Manilius manuscript Master of Trinity metre Milton mind modern nature never Newton notes Odyssey original Oxford Paradise Lost passage person Phalaris poem poet preface printed published reader Regius remarks reply restore Richard Richard Cumberland says Bentley scholars scholarship speak Statutes Stesichorus Stillingfleet studies style Terence thought tion Trinity College University verses Vice-chancellor whole words Wotton writes written wrote
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Página 181 - A multitude, like which the populous north Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Página 28 - ... 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 28 - 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 182 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Página 28 - 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 41 - I think he must have little skill in painting, that cannot find out this to be an original ; such diversity of passions, upon such variety of actions and passages of life and government, such freedom of thought, such boldness of expression, such bounty to his friends, such scorn of his enemies, such honour of learned men, such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed...
Página 180 - Like night, and darkened 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; Till, as a signal giv'n, th...
Página 41 - Epistles, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest master in his kind, and all others of that sort have been but imitations of his original ; so I think the Epistles of Phalaris to have more grace, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others I have ever seen, either ancient or modern.