Resolves, Divine, Moral and PoliticalJohn Hatchard and son, 1820 - 454 páginas |
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Página xxxv
... fires , though we burn not . " In his chapter Of Violence and Eagerness , " we have some excellent thoughts to the same purpose . 66 A " He that longs for heaven with such impatience as 4 66 66 46 -66 " to kill himselfe that he ACCOUNT ...
... fires , though we burn not . " In his chapter Of Violence and Eagerness , " we have some excellent thoughts to the same purpose . 66 A " He that longs for heaven with such impatience as 4 66 66 46 -66 " to kill himselfe that he ACCOUNT ...
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... fire gets the mastery . As quick wits have seldom sound judgments which should make them continue : so friendship kindled suddenly , is rarely found to consist with the durability of affection . Enduring love is ever built on virtue ...
... fire gets the mastery . As quick wits have seldom sound judgments which should make them continue : so friendship kindled suddenly , is rarely found to consist with the durability of affection . Enduring love is ever built on virtue ...
Página 43
... fire behind it . Deny not a just suit ; nor admit thou one that is unjust . Either , to a wise man , stamps unkindness in the memory . I confess , to a generous spirit , as it is hard to beg ; so it is harsh to be denied . To such , let ...
... fire behind it . Deny not a just suit ; nor admit thou one that is unjust . Either , to a wise man , stamps unkindness in the memory . I confess , to a generous spirit , as it is hard to beg ; so it is harsh to be denied . To such , let ...
Página 85
... fire , it is unavailing to wonder from how small a matter it arose . Exitus iræ furor : anger is but a step from rage ; and rage is a wild fire which is not to be extinguished . It is true , anger sooner inflames a fool , than a man ...
... fire , it is unavailing to wonder from how small a matter it arose . Exitus iræ furor : anger is but a step from rage ; and rage is a wild fire which is not to be extinguished . It is true , anger sooner inflames a fool , than a man ...
Página 105
... fire , how restless in its quick and catching flames ! In the air , what changes ! And how fluctuating are the ocean's waves ! Nor is the teeming earth weary , after so many thousand years ' production ! These things may well raise a ...
... fire , how restless in its quick and catching flames ! In the air , what changes ! And how fluctuating are the ocean's waves ! Nor is the teeming earth weary , after so many thousand years ' production ! These things may well raise a ...
Términos y frases comunes
actions beasts begets believe Ben Jonson benefit better blessings body Caligula certainly charity choler Christian Church Cicero command danger death Deity divine Domitian earth enemy enjoy evil faith fame favour fear folly fool friendship give glory God's hand happy hate hath heart heaven honest honour hope human injury judgment keep labour leave live look man's mind misery morality nature neglect Nero ness never nihil noble observe offence Oldys once ourselves Ovid Owen Felltham passions peace Phocion Plato pleased pleasure Plutarch poet pride prince quæ reason religion Resolves revenge Roman Sallust says scorn Sejanus Seneca servant shame shew Sir John Suckling Socrates sometimes soul speak spirit Stilpo sure tell thee Themistocles things thou thought tion tongue Troad truth vice virtue wealth wherein wisdom wise wonder worse
Pasajes populares
Página 355 - Though prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night, yet 1 hold it more needful in the morning, than when our bodies do take their repose.
Página lvi - Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Página 325 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Página lix - COME leave this saucy way Of baiting those that pay Dear for the sight of your declining wit: 'Tis known it is not fit, That a sale poet, just contempt once thrown, Should cry up thus his own. I wonder by what dower, Or patent, you had power From all to rape a judgment.
Página 58 - Tautologies. I see no reason that so high a Princess as Divinity is should be presented to the people in the sordid rags of the tongue ; nor that he which speaks from the Father of Languages should deliver his embassage in an ill one. A man can never speak too well while he speaks not too obscure. Long and distended clauses are both tedious to the ear and difficult for their retaining. A Sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those Cart-rope speeches that are...
Página lxi - O RARE BEN JONSON !" In the beginning of 1638, elegies on his death were published, under the title of " Jonsonius Virbius, or, the Memory of Ben Jonson Revived, by the Friends of the Muses.
Página 451 - E'er taught so bold assuming of the bays When they deserv'd no praise. To rail men into approbation Is new to your's alone : And prospers not : for know, Fame is as coy, as you Can be disdainful ; and who dares to prove A rape on her shall gather scorn, — not love. ' Leave then, this humour vain, And this more...
Página 448 - SOUL of my soul ! it cannot be, That you should weep, and I from tears be free. All the vast room between both poles, Can never dull the sense of souls, Knit in so fast a knot. Oh! can you grieve, and think that I Can feel no smart, because not nigh, Or that I know it not? Th
Página 384 - Let a man be sure to drive his business, rather than let it .drive him. When a man is but once brought to be driven, he becomes a vassal to his affairs. Reason and right give the quickest despatch.
Página 120 - in me iacis ? est auctor quis denique eorum 80 vixi cum quibus? absentem qui rodit amicum, qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis, fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere qui nequit, hie niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto.