Selections from English prose writers, for translation into Greek and Latin [signed H.W.P.].Henry Wright Phillott 1849 |
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... self - devouring in his father Atreus , the violence of ambition in the two Theban brothers , the sour sweetness of revenge in Medea , and to fall lower , the Terentian Gnatho , and our Chaucer's Pandar 8 SIR P. SIDNEY .
... self - devouring in his father Atreus , the violence of ambition in the two Theban brothers , the sour sweetness of revenge in Medea , and to fall lower , the Terentian Gnatho , and our Chaucer's Pandar 8 SIR P. SIDNEY .
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... father in his adversity , and while he was in sanctuary took part with him also of his misery , and afterwards ... father : — -0 father mine , this sorrowful garment and countenance is not for pity of Cleombrotus , but hath long remained ...
... father in his adversity , and while he was in sanctuary took part with him also of his misery , and afterwards ... father : — -0 father mine , this sorrowful garment and countenance is not for pity of Cleombrotus , but hath long remained ...
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... father , that did so dearly love her , as for her sake he had saved her husband's life . This , notwithstanding , she would not yield to his request , but rising up with her husband , gave him one of his sons , and herself took the ...
... father , that did so dearly love her , as for her sake he had saved her husband's life . This , notwithstanding , she would not yield to his request , but rising up with her husband , gave him one of his sons , and herself took the ...
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... father : they become the heirs of his affection , and the burden of his cares . He embraces a free community of all things ; save those , which either honesty reserves proper , or nature and hates to enjoy that which would do his friend ...
... father : they become the heirs of his affection , and the burden of his cares . He embraces a free community of all things ; save those , which either honesty reserves proper , or nature and hates to enjoy that which would do his friend ...
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... fathers condemn , and condemning those times the grey heads of their posterity shall commend . And thus is it the humour of many heads , to extol the days of their forefathers , and declaim against the wickedness of times present ...
... fathers condemn , and condemning those times the grey heads of their posterity shall commend . And thus is it the humour of many heads , to extol the days of their forefathers , and declaim against the wickedness of times present ...
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Page 98 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Page 160 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 24 - The use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 83 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Page 80 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.
Page 124 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 86 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and {whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Page 14 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His Name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him, not indeed as He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess without confession that His 'glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach.
Page 86 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among VoL. I.— 15 many other feathered creatures several little winged boys that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Page 40 - Falkland, a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, i" must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.