Mixed Essays

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Smith, Elder, 1880 - 347 頁
 

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第 77 頁 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
第 270 頁 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
第 65 頁 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
第 210 頁 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
第 25 頁 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
第 132 頁 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
第 206 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, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
第 252 頁 - What we know of Milton's character in domestic relations is, that he was severe and arbitrary. His family consisted of women ; and there appears in his books something like a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings.
第 270 頁 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
第 249 頁 - The first thing to be considered in an epic poem is the fable, which is perfect or imperfect, according as the action which it relates is more or less so. This action should have three qualifications in it. First, it should be but one action; secondly, it should be an entire action; and thirdly, it should be a great action. To consider the action of the Iliad, jEneid, and Paradise Lost, in these three several lights.

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