Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... seeme worthy of so extreame a remedy : I should prise or regard him no whit the lesse . Hee cannot loose himselfe more handsomely nor more excusablie . Wee cannot doe every thing , nor bee in every place . When all is done , thus and ...
... seeme worthy of so extreame a remedy : I should prise or regard him no whit the lesse . Hee cannot loose himselfe more handsomely nor more excusablie . Wee cannot doe every thing , nor bee in every place . When all is done , thus and ...
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... seeme wise among fooles : to speake as though ones tongue were ever bent to Favelar ' in punta diforchetta ( Ital . Prov . ) , To syllabize or speake minsingly . One must lend himselfe unto those hee is with , and some- times affect ...
... seeme wise among fooles : to speake as though ones tongue were ever bent to Favelar ' in punta diforchetta ( Ital . Prov . ) , To syllabize or speake minsingly . One must lend himselfe unto those hee is with , and some- times affect ...
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... seemes it not by this man alone , that he hath false visions of a multitude of other men with whom he doth negotiate ; or some inwarde Goblin that torments him ? Enquire of your selfe , where is the object of this alteration ? Is there ...
... seemes it not by this man alone , that he hath false visions of a multitude of other men with whom he doth negotiate ; or some inwarde Goblin that torments him ? Enquire of your selfe , where is the object of this alteration ? Is there ...
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... seemes she also hath it . The very : powers or faculties that are particular and proper to hir , cannot then rouze themselves : they evidently seeme to be en - rheumed there is no blithnes in hir productions , if there be none in the ...
... seemes she also hath it . The very : powers or faculties that are particular and proper to hir , cannot then rouze themselves : they evidently seeme to be en - rheumed there is no blithnes in hir productions , if there be none in the ...
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... seeme not so ugly unto me , as I finde it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch them . Every one is wary in the confession ; we should be as heedy in the action . The bouldnes of offending is somewhat recompensed and re- strained by ...
... seeme not so ugly unto me , as I finde it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch them . Every one is wary in the confession ; we should be as heedy in the action . The bouldnes of offending is somewhat recompensed and re- strained by ...
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Page 402 - The largest slice of this huge provision is, as a matter of course, given to the tyrannous demands of fiction. But in carrying out the scheme, publishers and editors contrived to keep in mind that books, like men and women, have their elective affinities. The present volume, for instance, will be found to have its companion books, both in the same section and just as significantly in other sections.
Page 403 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Page 402 - The Spectator and learn how Cleomira dances, when the elegance of her motion is unimaginable and ' her eyes are chastised with the simplicity and innocence of her thoughts.
Page 402 - ... significantly in other sections. With that idea too, novels like Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Fortunes of Nigel, Lytton's Harold and Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, have been used as pioneers of history and treated as a sort of holiday history books. For in our day history is tending to grow more documentary and less literary; and "the historian who is a stylist," as one of our contributors, the late Thomas Seccombe, said, "will soon be regarded as a kind of Phoenix.
Page 70 - ... dixerat et niveis hinc atque hinc diva lacertis cunctantem amplexu molli fovet. ille repente accepit solitam flammam, notusque medullas intravit calor et labefacta per ossa cucurrit, 390 non secus atque olim tonitru cum rupta corusco ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos.
Page 38 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...
Page 119 - In amore haec omnia insunt vitia : injuriae, ôO.suspiciones, inimicitiae, indutiae, bellum, pax rursum : incerta haec si tu postules ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias.
Page 173 - In quibus videndum est non modo quid quisque loquatur, sed etiam quid quisque sentiat atque etiam qua de causa quisque sentiat.