Voltaire

Front Cover
W. Blackwood & Sons, 1877 - 204 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 183 - Series. HOMER: THE ILIAD, by the Editor.— HOMER : THE ODYSSEY, by the Editor. — HERODOTUS, by George C.
Page 1 - Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Page 183 - By Anthony Trollope. TACITUS. By WB Donne. CICERO. By the Editor. PLINY'S LETTERS. By the Rev. Alfred Church, MA, and the Rev. WJ Brodribb, MA LIVY. By the Editor. OVID. By the Rev. A. Church. MA CATULLUS, TIBULLUS, AND PROPERTIUS.
Page 183 - It is difficult to estimate too highly the value of such a series as this in giving ' English readers ' an insight, exact as far as it goes, into those olden times which are so remote and yet to many of us so close.
Page 183 - HOMER : THE ILIAD. By the Editor. HOMER : THE ODYSSEY. By the Editor. HERODOTUS. By George C. Swayne, MA XENOPHON.
Page 148 - Memoir, who had the honour and the pleasure of being his acquaintance, remembers to have seen him in a select company of wits of both sexes at Paris, when the subject happened to turn upon English taste and learning. Fontenelle, who was of the party, and who, being unacquainted with the language or authors of the country he undertook to condemn, with a spirit truly vulgar began to revile both. Diderot, who liked the English, and knew something of their literary pretensions, attempted to vindicate...
Page 184 - The audience to which we aspire is, therefore, at once wider and narrower than that to which the great treasures of Hellenic and Roman literature are unfamiliar ; and our effort will be to present the great Italian, the great Frenchman, the famous German, to the reader so as to make it plain to him what and how they wrote, something of how they lived, and more or less of their position and influence upon the literature of their country.
Page 175 - Extremely lean old Gentleman! "He complained of decrepitude, and said, He supposed I was anxious to form an idea of the figure of one walking after death. However, his eyes and whole countenance are still full of fire; and though so emaciated, a more lively expression cannot be imagined. "He...
Page 167 - His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry, rather than the feelings of nature. My ardor, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
Page 175 - Garden, and was crossing the court before his House. Seeing my chaise, and me on the point of mounting it, he made a sign to his servant who had been my cicerone, to go to him ; in order, I suppose, to inquire who I was. After they had exchanged a few words together, he,

Bibliographic information