Selections from English prose writers, for translation into Greek and Latin [signed H.W.P.].Henry Wright Phillott 1849 |
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... eye , this history , may behold the wondrous mutability of vain honours , the brittle assurance of abundance , the uncertainty of dignities , the flattering of feigned friends , and the fickle favour of worldly princes . Whereof this ...
... eye , this history , may behold the wondrous mutability of vain honours , the brittle assurance of abundance , the uncertainty of dignities , the flattering of feigned friends , and the fickle favour of worldly princes . Whereof this ...
第 7 頁
... eyes whirled about , his body privily fenced , his hand ever upon his dagger , his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again , he took ill rest at nights , lay long waking and musing , sore wearied with care and watch ...
... eyes whirled about , his body privily fenced , his hand ever upon his dagger , his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again , he took ill rest at nights , lay long waking and musing , sore wearied with care and watch ...
第 11 頁
... eyes , bare - headed , she spake in this manner unto her father : — -0 father mine , this sorrowful garment and countenance is not for pity of Cleombrotus , but hath long remained with me , lamenting sore your former misery and exile ...
... eyes , bare - headed , she spake in this manner unto her father : — -0 father mine , this sorrowful garment and countenance is not for pity of Cleombrotus , but hath long remained with me , lamenting sore your former misery and exile ...
第 12 頁
... eyes upon the standers by . Wherefore Leonidas , after he had talked a little with his friends , he commanded Cleombrotus to get him hence , and to leave the city as an exile , and prayed his daughter for his sake to remain with him ...
... eyes upon the standers by . Wherefore Leonidas , after he had talked a little with his friends , he commanded Cleombrotus to get him hence , and to leave the city as an exile , and prayed his daughter for his sake to remain with him ...
第 21 頁
... eyes of the most beautiful , and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness , and they acknowledge it . O eloquent , just , and mighty Death ! whom none could advise thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared , thou hast done ...
... eyes of the most beautiful , and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness , and they acknowledge it . O eloquent , just , and mighty Death ! whom none could advise thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared , thou hast done ...
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第 98 頁 - 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.
第 160 頁 - 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.
第 24 頁 - 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.
第 83 頁 - 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.
第 80 頁 - 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.
第 124 頁 - 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.
第 86 頁 - 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...
第 14 頁 - 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.
第 86 頁 - 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.
第 40 頁 - 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.