Select British Classics, 第 14 卷J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... actions is not subject to diminution ; nor can any attempts prevail against it , but in the proportion which the narrow circuit of ru- mour bears to the unlimited extent of fame . We may congratulate your Grace , not only upon your high ...
... actions is not subject to diminution ; nor can any attempts prevail against it , but in the proportion which the narrow circuit of ru- mour bears to the unlimited extent of fame . We may congratulate your Grace , not only upon your high ...
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... actions , would only influence vir- tuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common princi- ple of action working equally with all men . And : such a principle is ambition or a desire of 22 ...
... actions , would only influence vir- tuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common princi- ple of action working equally with all men . And : such a principle is ambition or a desire of 22 ...
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... action . For we may farther observe , that men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition and that on the contrary , mean and nar- row minds are the least actuated by it ; whether it be that a man's sense of his own ...
... action . For we may farther observe , that men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition and that on the contrary , mean and nar- row minds are the least actuated by it ; whether it be that a man's sense of his own ...
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... actions should be thrown away in private , lest his deserts should be concealed from the notice of the world , or receive any disadvantage from the reports which others make of them . This often sets him on empty boasts and ostentations ...
... actions should be thrown away in private , lest his deserts should be concealed from the notice of the world , or receive any disadvantage from the reports which others make of them . This often sets him on empty boasts and ostentations ...
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... actions are never so glorious , they lose their lustre when they are drawn at large , and set to show by his own hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to commend , the boast will probably be censured when the great action ...
... actions are never so glorious , they lose their lustre when they are drawn at large , and set to show by his own hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to commend , the boast will probably be censured when the great action ...
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第 16 頁 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
第 240 頁 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
第 335 頁 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
第 243 頁 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
第 240 頁 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
第 244 頁 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
第 244 頁 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
第 242 頁 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
第 132 頁 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
第 242 頁 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.