BentleyMacmillan, 1882 - 224 páginas |
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... speak at random ; and I am certain that no ancient writer mentions a Pasiphaë of Euripides . " The comic poet Alcæus , indeed , composed a piece of that name , which is said to have been exhibited in the same year as the recast Plutus ...
... speak at random ; and I am certain that no ancient writer mentions a Pasiphaë of Euripides . " The comic poet Alcæus , indeed , composed a piece of that name , which is said to have been exhibited in the same year as the recast Plutus ...
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Richard Claverhouse Jebb. four letters of the alphabet , each used once only . Speak- ing of Ion , he gives an exhaustive discussion of that poet's date and writings , verse and prose . The Letter ends with some remarks on the form of ...
Richard Claverhouse Jebb. four letters of the alphabet , each used once only . Speak- ing of Ion , he gives an exhaustive discussion of that poet's date and writings , verse and prose . The Letter ends with some remarks on the form of ...
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... speak with him of the passage in Temple's Essay which we quoted above . Bentley observed that the Letters of Phal- aris could be proved to be spurious , and that nothing composed by Æsop was extant : opinions which he had formed , and ...
... speak with him of the passage in Temple's Essay which we quoted above . Bentley observed that the Letters of Phal- aris could be proved to be spurious , and that nothing composed by Æsop was extant : opinions which he had formed , and ...
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... speak of that calumny : for my silence would have been inter- preted as good as a confession : especially considering with what industrious malice the story had been spread all over England . " In this he was possibly right ; it is not ...
... speak of that calumny : for my silence would have been inter- preted as good as a confession : especially considering with what industrious malice the story had been spread all over England . " In this he was possibly right ; it is not ...
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... speak of Bentley's Dissertation in its second and mature form . The first rough draft , in Wotton's book , is a rapid argument , with just enough illustration to make each topic clear . It had been very hastily written . That Boyle and ...
... speak of Bentley's Dissertation in its second and mature form . The first rough draft , in Wotton's book , is a rapid argument , with just enough illustration to make each topic clear . It had been very hastily written . That Boyle and ...
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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.