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... action , till they have passed the meridian of their years ; as it was with Julius Cæsar , and Septimus Severus , of the latter of whom it is said " Juventutem egit erroribus , imo furoribus , plenam . " And yet he was the ablest ...
... action , till they have passed the meridian of their years ; as it was with Julius Cæsar , and Septimus Severus , of the latter of whom it is said " Juventutem egit erroribus , imo furoribus , plenam . " And yet he was the ablest ...
Page 54
... actions and their lives . Besides all this there is another sort of variety among us , which arises from our climate and the dispositions it naturally produces . We are not only more unlike one another than any nation I know , but we ...
... actions and their lives . Besides all this there is another sort of variety among us , which arises from our climate and the dispositions it naturally produces . We are not only more unlike one another than any nation I know , but we ...
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... actions to Argus with his hundred eyes , and the ends to Briareus with his hundred hands ; first to watch and then to speed . The helmet of Pluto , which makes the politic man go invisible , is secrecy in the counsel , and celerity in ...
... actions to Argus with his hundred eyes , and the ends to Briareus with his hundred hands ; first to watch and then to speed . The helmet of Pluto , which makes the politic man go invisible , is secrecy in the counsel , and celerity in ...
Page 72
... action which he does not understand . To interpret thus will render him often mistaken and always uneasy : it is the way never to be kind to others nor just to himself . ESSAY 17 . * SOLITUDE . ( Cowley . ) 72 ESSAY 16 .
... action which he does not understand . To interpret thus will render him often mistaken and always uneasy : it is the way never to be kind to others nor just to himself . ESSAY 17 . * SOLITUDE . ( Cowley . ) 72 ESSAY 16 .
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... action . A man may die old at thirty , and a child at fourscore . To nurse up the vital flame as long as the matter will last , is not always good husbandry . It is much better to cover it with an extinguisher of honour , than let it ...
... action . A man may die old at thirty , and a child at fourscore . To nurse up the vital flame as long as the matter will last , is not always good husbandry . It is much better to cover it with an extinguisher of honour , than let it ...
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à corps perdu actions admirable advantage affections agreeable antient beauty Beelzebub Ben Jonson better body born for love Cæsar called cern chuse common compass courage Cowley danger death deceive defects delight disposition divine Domitian envy Epicurus ESSAY esteem evil excellent fancy fear force fortune friends genius happy honour Horace human humour imagination industry judgment Julius Cæsar kind laws less liberty live look Lord Bacon Lord Clarendon Lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind mean ment mind miscellany mour nation nature ness never object observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons philosophers pleasure poetry poets praise princes reason rience Seneca the elder Septimus Severus shew Sir William Temple sort spirit suspicions taste temper thing thought tion true truth turn vanity verses Virgil virtue wisdom wise wonder writing youth
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Page 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 18 - 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 up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Page 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Page 16 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Page 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.