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Page 19 - Hie manus ob patriam pugnando volnera passi, 660 quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, quique sui memores alios fecere merendo, omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
Page 212 - Almost every man's thoughts, while they are general, are right ; and most hearts are pure, while temptation is away. It is easy to awaken generous sentiments in privacy ; to despise death when there is no danger ; to glow with benevolence when there is nothing to be given. While such ideas are formed they are felt, and self-love does not suspect the gleam of virtue to be the meteor of fancy.
Page 211 - And herein you have always consented to approve of the modest Judgment of our Country-men above the practice of some of our Neighbours, and chiefly of the French. I make no manner of question, but the English at this time are infinitely...
Page 53 - I find that there is so close a connection between ideas and words, and our abstract ideas and general words have so constant a relation one to another, that it is impossible to speak clearly and distinctly of our knowledge, which all consists in propositions, without considering first the nature, use, and signification of language...
Page 161 - Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 19 - As honours are paid to the dead in order to incite others to the imitation of their excellencies, the principal intention of EPITAPHS is to perpetuate the examples of virtue, that the tomb of a good man may supply the want of his presence, and veneration for his memory produce the same effect as the observation of his life.
Page 200 - ... at last, my lord came out in his rochet, upon a violet gown, like a bishop, who went with his chaplains to the upper end of the chamber, where was a great window, beholding his goodly number of servants, who could not speak to them until the tears ran down his cheeks; which, being perceived of his servants, caused fountains of tears to gush out of their sorrowful eyes in such sort, as would cause any heart to relent.
Page 178 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions, and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Page 228 - Greeks we should expect all those excellences and blemishes which great yet unaided talents among such a people could produce. On the other hand, the Latins would be more likely to distinguish their writings by acquired than by natural ability ; and if not remarkable for such masterly strokes of genius, they would yet be superior in all those points which are affected by an improved state of education, manners, and taste. It remains for us to...
Page 226 - Latin poets was widely different, and far less favourable both to the originality of their thoughts, and the vigorous simplicity of their expression. They wrote at a time when the happiest models of their art were already before them ; and in a country where the great works of the Grecian masters were not only known, but, having been handed down with the consenting admiration of antiquity, were valued as just criterions of all succeeding excellence c.