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... seems but yesterday that the children , in their scarlet cloaks , were running on the green beside the Yarrow , and now their own children are of the age that then they had , and Mr. Sellar , Dr. John Brown , Mr. Shairp WILLIAM YOUNG ...
... seems but yesterday that the children , in their scarlet cloaks , were running on the green beside the Yarrow , and now their own children are of the age that then they had , and Mr. Sellar , Dr. John Brown , Mr. Shairp WILLIAM YOUNG ...
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... seem to claim him as especially their own . ] They each But the strongest hold which he has on every generation and every variety of cultivated reader , is that no other writer , ancient or modern , seems equally to speak to each ...
... seem to claim him as especially their own . ] They each But the strongest hold which he has on every generation and every variety of cultivated reader , is that no other writer , ancient or modern , seems equally to speak to each ...
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... seems to be so truly and familiarly known . He lives in his own writings as Dr. Johnson lives for us in the pages of Boswell . Perhaps the impression produced by the correspondence of Cicero may be deemed more trustworthy than that ...
... seems to be so truly and familiarly known . He lives in his own writings as Dr. Johnson lives for us in the pages of Boswell . Perhaps the impression produced by the correspondence of Cicero may be deemed more trustworthy than that ...
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... seems to have felt that preference which Goethe and Scott , and other men of genius in modern times , have felt for the society of men of action and men of the world over that of men of letters . Though he lived in intimacy and made ...
... seems to have felt that preference which Goethe and Scott , and other men of genius in modern times , have felt for the society of men of action and men of the world over that of men of letters . Though he lived in intimacy and made ...
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... seems first to have become conscious of in the early years passed near Venusia . He has , like the other great Italian poets , a genuine love of Nature . This susceptibility manifests itself in him in a way peculiar to himself and is ...
... seems first to have become conscious of in the early years passed near Venusia . He has , like the other great Italian poets , a genuine love of Nature . This susceptibility manifests itself in him in a way peculiar to himself and is ...
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Page 114 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page xxvii - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Page 302 - Ordiar et caeso moenia firma Remo, Eductosque pares silvestri ex ubere reges, Crescet et ingenium sub tua iussa meum...
Page 168 - Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui deorum Muneribus sapienter uti Duramque callet pauperiem pati Peiusque leto flagitium timet, Non ille pro caris amicis Aut patria timidus perire.
Page 318 - ... nec tibi clamatae somnus amarus erit. sola eris et solos spectabis, Cynthia, montes et pecus et fines pauperis agricolae. illic te nulli poterunt corrumpere ludi, fanaque peccatis plurima causa tuis. 10 illic assidue tauros spectabis arantes, et vitem docta ponere falce comas ; atque ibi rara feres inculto tura sacello, haedus ubi agrestes corruet ante focos ; protinus et nuda choreas imitabere sura ; omnia ab externo sint modo tuta viro.
Page 315 - ... niger clauderet ora liquor : 'Di maris Aegaei quos sunt penes aequora, Venti, Et quaecumque meum degravat unda caput, Quo rapitis miseros tenerae lanuginis annos?
Page 111 - Vivere si recte nescis decede peritis. Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti : Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius aequo Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.
Page 243 - Messalla meus, cui dulcia poma Delia selectis detrahat arboribus: Et tantum venerata virum, hunc sedula curet, Huic paret atque epulas ipsa ministra gerat.