The Harvard Classics, Volume 39P.F. Collier & son, 1909 - Literature |
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... passions , the miracles , and the death of the holy saints , and also some other notorious deeds and acts of times past , I have submised myself to translate into English the legend of Saints , which is called Legenda Aurea in Latin ...
... passions , the miracles , and the death of the holy saints , and also some other notorious deeds and acts of times past , I have submised myself to translate into English the legend of Saints , which is called Legenda Aurea in Latin ...
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... passions , and mir- acles of holy saints , of histories of noble and famous acts and faites , and of the chronicles since the beginning of the creation of the world unto this present time , by which we be daily informed and have ...
... passions , and mir- acles of holy saints , of histories of noble and famous acts and faites , and of the chronicles since the beginning of the creation of the world unto this present time , by which we be daily informed and have ...
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... passion rather than judicial gravity . Think not that I am now meditating my own individual defence , in order to effect a safe return to my native country ; for , though I feel the affection which every man ought to feel for it , yet ...
... passion rather than judicial gravity . Think not that I am now meditating my own individual defence , in order to effect a safe return to my native country ; for , though I feel the affection which every man ought to feel for it , yet ...
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... passions in mortal men . For it is not the visible fashion and shape of plants , and of reasonable creatures , that makes the difference of working in the one , and of condition in the other ; but the form internal . And though it hath ...
... passions in mortal men . For it is not the visible fashion and shape of plants , and of reasonable creatures , that makes the difference of working in the one , and of condition in the other ; but the form internal . And though it hath ...
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... passions , but that they seem divers persons in one and the same day . Seneca hath said it , and so do I : " Unus mihi pro populo erat " ; " and to the same effect Epicurus , " Hoc ego non multis sed tibi " ; " or ( as it hath since ...
... passions , but that they seem divers persons in one and the same day . Seneca hath said it , and so do I : " Unus mihi pro populo erat " ; " and to the same effect Epicurus , " Hoc ego non multis sed tibi " ; " or ( as it hath since ...
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Page 310 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 217 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 261 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 322 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 220 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Page 301 - ... the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on...
Page 182 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 220 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
Page 173 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.