The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsPutnam, 1856 |
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... fortune for finding readers willing to allow him any degree of reputation . It has been remarked , that almost every character which has excited either attention or praise , has owed part of its success to merit , and part to a happy ...
... fortune for finding readers willing to allow him any degree of reputation . It has been remarked , that almost every character which has excited either attention or praise , has owed part of its success to merit , and part to a happy ...
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... fortunes were nearly equal , their studies the same , and they were natives of the two most celebrated cities in the world ; for Alcander was of Athens , Septimius came from Rome . In this mutual harmony they lived for some time ...
... fortunes were nearly equal , their studies the same , and they were natives of the two most celebrated cities in the world ; for Alcander was of Athens , Septimius came from Rome . In this mutual harmony they lived for some time ...
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... fortune wrought as unexpected a change in the constitution of the now happy Septimius . In a few days he was perfectly recovered , and set out with his fair partner for Rome . Here , by an exertion of those talents of which he was so ...
... fortune wrought as unexpected a change in the constitution of the now happy Septimius . In a few days he was perfectly recovered , and set out with his fair partner for Rome . Here , by an exertion of those talents of which he was so ...
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... and skies , Allures from far , yet , as I follow flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . " - TRAVELLER . ] instructed . I made some attempts to display all the 28 THE BEE .
... and skies , Allures from far , yet , as I follow flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . " - TRAVELLER . ] instructed . I made some attempts to display all the 28 THE BEE .
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... fortune have united his fame with that of our human prodigy . The first of his performances , openly , in vindication of the Newtonian system , is his treatise entitled , " Sur la Figure des Astres , " if I remember right ; a work at ...
... fortune have united his fame with that of our human prodigy . The first of his performances , openly , in vindication of the Newtonian system , is his treatise entitled , " Sur la Figure des Astres , " if I remember right ; a work at ...
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Page 324 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page ix - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Page 306 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?
Page 329 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 306 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 280 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 379 - If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught, not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.
Page 306 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 78 - In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.
Page 306 - With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death — That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns! — puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.