The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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Page 11
... able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the occasion that produced it ; that the golden age should return because Pollio had a son , appears so wild a fiction , that I am ready to suspect the poet of ...
... able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the occasion that produced it ; that the golden age should return because Pollio had a son , appears so wild a fiction , that I am ready to suspect the poet of ...
Page 12
... able to dis- cover how it was deserved . " Of the eighth pastoral , so little is properly the work of Virgil , that he has no claim to other praise or blame than that of a translator . " Of the ninth , it is scarce possible to discover ...
... able to dis- cover how it was deserved . " Of the eighth pastoral , so little is properly the work of Virgil , that he has no claim to other praise or blame than that of a translator . " Of the ninth , it is scarce possible to discover ...
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... able to relate how the passions are kept in perpetual agitation by the recollection of injury and meditations of revenge ; how the blood boils at the name of the enemy , and life is worn away in contrivances of mischief . Every other ...
... able to relate how the passions are kept in perpetual agitation by the recollection of injury and meditations of revenge ; how the blood boils at the name of the enemy , and life is worn away in contrivances of mischief . Every other ...
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... able to diminish the evil of life , and to increase the good ; he will learn to resign with complacency , to receive with gratitude , and possess with cheerfulness ; and as in this con- duct there is not only wisdom but virtue , he will ...
... able to diminish the evil of life , and to increase the good ; he will learn to resign with complacency , to receive with gratitude , and possess with cheerfulness ; and as in this con- duct there is not only wisdom but virtue , he will ...
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... able adventurers , must soon become too common to confer distinction . In behalf of some among these candidates for fame , the legislature has , indeed , thought fit to in- terpose ; and their achievements are with great solemnity ...
... able adventurers , must soon become too common to confer distinction . In behalf of some among these candidates for fame , the legislature has , indeed , thought fit to in- terpose ; and their achievements are with great solemnity ...
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