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... Cicero and Horace , Jonson has laid down the rules of his own practise with a remarkable degree of success . " The more I study his writings , " says Coleridge , in words as applicable to his prose as to his verse , " the more I admire ...
... Cicero and Horace , Jonson has laid down the rules of his own practise with a remarkable degree of success . " The more I study his writings , " says Coleridge , in words as applicable to his prose as to his verse , " the more I admire ...
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... Cicero , so far as the ignorant durst . They learned him without book , and had him often in their mouths ; but a man cannot imagine that thing so foolish or rude but will find and enjoy an admirer ; at least a reader or spectator . The ...
... Cicero , so far as the ignorant durst . They learned him without book , and had him often in their mouths ; but a man cannot imagine that thing so foolish or rude but will find and enjoy an admirer ; at least a reader or spectator . The ...
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... Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to their em- pire . Ingenium par imperio . We have had many , and in their several ages ( to take in but the former seculum ) Sir Thomas More , the elder Wyatt ...
... Cicero is said to be the only wit that the people of Rome had equalled to their em- pire . Ingenium par imperio . We have had many , and in their several ages ( to take in but the former seculum ) Sir Thomas More , the elder Wyatt ...
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... Cicero said much , when he said , Dicere recte nemo potest , nisi qui prudenter intelligit . The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue only thereby were disgraced ; but as the image of a king in his seal ill ...
... Cicero said much , when he said , Dicere recte nemo potest , nisi qui prudenter intelligit . The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue only thereby were disgraced ; but as the image of a king in his seal ill ...
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... Cicero De Oratore . 4. Discretio . - The last is , respect to discern what fits yourself , him to whom you write , and that which you handle , which is a quality fit to conclude the rest , because 35 Ne two quest divisions ΙΟ it doth ...
... Cicero De Oratore . 4. Discretio . - The last is , respect to discern what fits yourself , him to whom you write , and that which you handle , which is a quality fit to conclude the rest , because 35 Ne two quest divisions ΙΟ it doth ...
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Page 23 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 54 - He must first think and excogitate his matter ; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing, and ranking both matter, and words, that the composition be comely ; and to do this with diligence, and often.
Page 145 - I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or limned book; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter?
Page 106 - So that the sum of all is, ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
Page 31 - ... him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want.* Neither could I condole* in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident* could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.
Page 23 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 111 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 147 - As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 115 - That though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind.
Page 31 - But his learned and able, though unfortunate, successor is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared, or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.