The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated Children, and of the Infancy of Persons who Have Been Illustrious for Their Virtues Or Talents. With Plates..Tabart and Company at the Juvenile Library, 157, New Bond Street., 1806 - 204 pages |
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... excellence . He felt and admired , in the several lan- guages in which they wrote , the wit of Plautus , Boileau , and Fontaine ; the perspicuity of diction in Xenophon and Cæsar , Cebes , and Arrian ; the judgment of Virgil ...
... excellence . He felt and admired , in the several lan- guages in which they wrote , the wit of Plautus , Boileau , and Fontaine ; the perspicuity of diction in Xenophon and Cæsar , Cebes , and Arrian ; the judgment of Virgil ...
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... excellence of disposition , that while they raised the wonder , they at the same time conciliated the esteem of the greatest scholars who had the good fortune of his acquaintance . Persons at a dis- tance , indeed , and who knew him ...
... excellence of disposition , that while they raised the wonder , they at the same time conciliated the esteem of the greatest scholars who had the good fortune of his acquaintance . Persons at a dis- tance , indeed , and who knew him ...
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... excellence . He soon afterwards became a pu- pil of Mr. Gravelot , under whose in- struction he drew most of the orna- ments which decorate the illustrious portraits , so admirably engraved by Houbraken . But some of his first efforts ...
... excellence . He soon afterwards became a pu- pil of Mr. Gravelot , under whose in- struction he drew most of the orna- ments which decorate the illustrious portraits , so admirably engraved by Houbraken . But some of his first efforts ...
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... , which he completed with lit- tle other incitement , than the desire of excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet ; and he accordingly read with avidity the writings of Spen- ser , Waller 158 Alexander Pope .
... , which he completed with lit- tle other incitement , than the desire of excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet ; and he accordingly read with avidity the writings of Spen- ser , Waller 158 Alexander Pope .
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... excellence of the poem , and the youth of the author , filled every person with amazement . So great a know- ledge of the world , with such matu- rity of judgment and penetration into * human nature are therein displayed , that the ...
... excellence of the poem , and the youth of the author , filled every person with amazement . So great a know- ledge of the world , with such matu- rity of judgment and penetration into * human nature are therein displayed , that the ...
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Page 193 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 196 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 190 - I had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon them, to be sent to those places where the opinion was it might be soonest attained, and as the manner is was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended: whereof some were grave orators and historians, whose matter methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them...
Page 159 - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his " Ode
Page 185 - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Page 142 - Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.
Page 185 - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate...
Page 185 - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony deep his idle ship Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew, Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues; to the cordage glued The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.
Page 19 - I had now gained the point I aimed at : and saw, that his reason taught him (though he could not so express it) that what begins to be must have a cause, and that what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance...
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