Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 5Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 - English literature |
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Page 1879 - may be almost universally applied to this sentimental poetry: — " Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were tempered with love's sighs." But this was not the case with our poet. We may conclude, from the circumstances of Shakespeare's life, that in his youth he may have been for a while that which in
Page 1927 - never to forget his father's departed spirit, and concludes with the expression of deep regret that: — (The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!'
Page 1770 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, (keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last.
Page 1663 - silence, sit, stand, or go, eate, drinke, be merrie or sad, be sowying, playing, dauncing, or doing anie thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so pcrfitelie as God made the world, or else I am so
Page 1970 - wanders over the awful ruins of others; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom and feels the transience of every sublunary possession. "Here," he cries, "stood their citadel, now grown over with weeds; there their senate house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an
Page 1769 - honor'; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, (At the workingman's house Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 1935 - of its own, and having probably exhausted all its stock in former labors .of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbor. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader seemed to have the victory, and the laborious spider was obliged to take
Page 1769 - well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, (At the workingman's house Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 1935 - may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it
Page 1673 - errors, than in any way expose them. The counsel in the satire I much approve: — 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.