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... fame in com- parative youth ; it tells of men of science also , and of scholars , and of statesmen who in youth rose to great and envied distinction . But the difference is obvious and it is wide between the conquest of territory and ...
... fame in com- parative youth ; it tells of men of science also , and of scholars , and of statesmen who in youth rose to great and envied distinction . But the difference is obvious and it is wide between the conquest of territory and ...
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... fame before they reached that age . ÆSCHYLUS , who became so illustrious as a tragic poet , was only twenty - five when he read his first piece in public . Even when he was a boy , it is said that he was dreaming of tragic poetry ...
... fame before they reached that age . ÆSCHYLUS , who became so illustrious as a tragic poet , was only twenty - five when he read his first piece in public . Even when he was a boy , it is said that he was dreaming of tragic poetry ...
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... fame before he became a voluptuary . BION's bucolic verse blossomed young before his premature death . Among Roman poets CICERO strove hard to get a place for his youthful verses ; and JULIUS CESAR had similar aspira- tions , and wrote ...
... fame before he became a voluptuary . BION's bucolic verse blossomed young before his premature death . Among Roman poets CICERO strove hard to get a place for his youthful verses ; and JULIUS CESAR had similar aspira- tions , and wrote ...
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... fame . COPLAS DE MANRIQUE ( about 1479 ) , though a soldier who fell in his youth on the field of battle , was also a poet of Spain . It was the death of his father , Rodrigo Manrique , Count of Peres and Master of Santiago , which ...
... fame . COPLAS DE MANRIQUE ( about 1479 ) , though a soldier who fell in his youth on the field of battle , was also a poet of Spain . It was the death of his father , Rodrigo Manrique , Count of Peres and Master of Santiago , which ...
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... fame belongs to full age . RACINE ( 1630-1699 ) , in like manner , composed poetry while he was a pupil at Port Royal , and is said to have planned some of his future works ; but his poetry was the product of riper years . CORNEILLE ...
... fame belongs to full age . RACINE ( 1630-1699 ) , in like manner , composed poetry while he was a pupil at Port Royal , and is said to have planned some of his future works ; but his poetry was the product of riper years . CORNEILLE ...
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Page 19 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 126 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 179 - I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 175 - ... has with such spirit and decency charged upon me I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice...
Page 25 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 126 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 163 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 25 - When ranting round in pleasure's ring, Religion may be blinded ; Or if she gie a random sting, It may be little minded ; But when on life we're tempest-driv'n, A conscience but a canker — A correspondence fix'd wi' Heav'n Is sure a noble anchor!
Page 129 - When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species— that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Page 175 - ... or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.