The Retrospective Review, Volume 4Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1821 - Books |
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... honour and success . Cellini , now about twenty - three years of age , was of a genius so happy , that he could , with ease , learn any thing to which he gave his mind . He felt an extreme desire to rival Lantinio , in seal - engraving ...
... honour and success . Cellini , now about twenty - three years of age , was of a genius so happy , that he could , with ease , learn any thing to which he gave his mind . He felt an extreme desire to rival Lantinio , in seal - engraving ...
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... honour . The Pope made answer : this devil Benvenuto cannot bear a word of rebuke ; I did intend to bestow the place upon him ; but it is not right to behave so proudly to a Pope : I therefore don't know how I shall dispose of it . " He ...
... honour . The Pope made answer : this devil Benvenuto cannot bear a word of rebuke ; I did intend to bestow the place upon him ; but it is not right to behave so proudly to a Pope : I therefore don't know how I shall dispose of it . " He ...
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... honour on my slender abilities , that such a statue should be made in your kingdom , as had never been seen by the antients . But , since I perceive that God has not thought proper to render me worthy of so honourable a service , I ...
... honour on my slender abilities , that such a statue should be made in your kingdom , as had never been seen by the antients . But , since I perceive that God has not thought proper to render me worthy of so honourable a service , I ...
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... honour led you by the hand to greatness , fortune only followed to keep you from sliding back in the ascent . That which Plutarch accounted her favour to Cimon and Lucullus , was but her justice to your Grace ; and never to have been ...
... honour led you by the hand to greatness , fortune only followed to keep you from sliding back in the ascent . That which Plutarch accounted her favour to Cimon and Lucullus , was but her justice to your Grace ; and never to have been ...
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... honour of being your poet has filled my mind , I confess myself too weak for the inspiration ; the priest was always unequal to the oracle ; the god within him was too mighty for his breast . He laboured with the sacred revelation , and ...
... honour of being your poet has filled my mind , I confess myself too weak for the inspiration ; the priest was always unequal to the oracle ; the god within him was too mighty for his breast . He laboured with the sacred revelation , and ...
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Page 288 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 288 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 124 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Page 120 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 294 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 66 - For imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless, that like an high-ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment.
Page 291 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 249 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 168 - Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless § towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Page 285 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like; so, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers'...