Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship |
大家的评论 - 撰写书评
我们没有找到任何书评。
其他版本 - 查看全部
常见术语和短语
active advantage affection allow answer asked better body Book brought called Cato cause character Cicero consul consulship course death delight desire difference doubt Edited English enjoy essay exist expression eyes fact Fannius feeling flatterer follow fortune friends friendship Gaius give Golden Treasury hand happen happy highest honour hope horse human immortal instance interests Introduction keep kind Laelius less limit live look Lyrical man's means memory mention mind nature never Notes object old age once opinion origin perhaps pleasure Poems political possess possible practice present Publius Publius Rupilius reason regard remember rule Scaevola Scipio secure seems Selected and arranged Senate ship soul speak spirit strength things thought tion told Translated true truth virtue weak wisdom wise wish young youth
热门引用章节
第213页 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
第213页 - Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA The Pilgrim's Progress from this "World to that which is to come.
第22页 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind: Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more : And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
第213页 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS...
第213页 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
第213页 - Clough. Letters of William Cowper. Edited with Introduction, by Rev. W. BENHAM, BD, FSA Selections from Cowper's Poems. With an Introduction, by Mrs. OLIPHANT.
第93页 - Again, just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.
第60页 - For he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack. He maintained not merely an influence but an absolute command over his family: his slaves feared him, his sons were in awe of him, all loved him. In that family, indeed, ancestral custom and discipline were in full vigour. The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one. For as I admire a young man who has something...