Works of Henry Lord Brougham ...Adam and Charles Black, 1872 |
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... learned profession , and to the bosom of the church , by sending him as page or attaché to the French ambassador at the Hague , a near kinsman of the Abbé Châteauneuf . He there fell in love with the daughter of a profligate woman ...
... learned profession , and to the bosom of the church , by sending him as page or attaché to the French ambassador at the Hague , a near kinsman of the Abbé Châteauneuf . He there fell in love with the daughter of a profligate woman ...
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... learned persons of the past age , excited him , by his conversation upon the Sullys and the Henrys , to meditate two of his greatest works , his epic poem and his history . 6 The death of Louis , which happened on Voltaire's return to ...
... learned persons of the past age , excited him , by his conversation upon the Sullys and the Henrys , to meditate two of his greatest works , his epic poem and his history . 6 The death of Louis , which happened on Voltaire's return to ...
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... failure is not excused by his attempt being the more learned . Of the inferior dramas , ' Alzire ' and ' Mahomet ' or ' Le Fanatisme ' are certainly the best ; but they are far from being equal to the ' Zaire ' and ' VOLTAIRE . 27.
... failure is not excused by his attempt being the more learned . Of the inferior dramas , ' Alzire ' and ' Mahomet ' or ' Le Fanatisme ' are certainly the best ; but they are far from being equal to the ' Zaire ' and ' VOLTAIRE . 27.
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... learned and polite than to the bulk of mankind , occupied here their appointed province , and had their full scope . Pope's moral essays gave the first hint of these beauti- ful compositions ; but there is nothing borrowed in them from ...
... learned and polite than to the bulk of mankind , occupied here their appointed province , and had their full scope . Pope's moral essays gave the first hint of these beauti- ful compositions ; but there is nothing borrowed in them from ...
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... learned beyond the ordinary measure even of man's information , endowed with talents both solid and ornamental , and inspired by a taste for the graver as well as the lighter pursuits of genius . The difficul- ties in which he was ...
... learned beyond the ordinary measure even of man's information , endowed with talents both solid and ornamental , and inspired by a taste for the graver as well as the lighter pursuits of genius . The difficul- ties in which he was ...
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Stran 403 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Stran 328 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Stran 383 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition, that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance, of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Stran 368 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from...
Stran 342 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I .knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Stran 21 - Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus d'espoir, La vie est un opprobre, et la mort un devoir.
Stran 313 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Stran 405 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.
Stran 403 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Stran 362 - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fan, to think naturally and express forcibly.