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Page 260 - Felix praedo, iacet, terrarum vindice fato Raptus; sacratis totum spargenda per orbem Membra viri posuere adytis: Fortuna pepercit Manibus, et regni duravit ad ultima fatum. Nam sibi libertas umquam si redderet orbem, 25 Ludibrio servatus erat, non utile mundo Editus exemplum, terras tot posse sub uno Esse viro.
Page 217 - It is a curious fact that these remarks on the character of the modern drama were probably written, and were certainly...
Page 216 - Dramatica autem poësis, quae theatrum habet pro mundo, :usu eximia est, si sana foret. Non parva enim esse posset thea.tri, et disciplina, et corruptela: atque corruptelarum in hoc genere, abunde est ; disciplina plane nostris temporibus est neglecta. Attamen licet in rebuspublicis modernis habeatur pro re ludiera actio .theatralis, nisi forte nimium trahat e satira, et mordeat ; tamen apud antiques curae fuit, ut animos hominum ail virtutem institueret.
Page 325 - And when life's sweet fable ends, Soul and body part like friends ; No quarrels, murmurs, no delay ; A kiss, a sigh, and so away ; — This rare one, reader, wouldst thou see!
Page 74 - Tenison) sent him a specimen, but " of such superfine Latinity, that the Lord Bacon did not encourage him to labour further in that work, in the penning of which he desired not so much neat and polite, as clear masculine and apt expression.
Page 12 - And since you have done me the honour to think so very highly of my precepts, I am a little surprised that you have not thought it worth while in so very essential a point to follow them. And to say the truth, I could wish for my own reputation (if that were of any consequence) that you had either honoured me a little more in that way, or not honoured me quite so much in other ways. You call me the Father of your Philosophy, meaning it for the greatest compliment you can pay. I thank you for the...
Page 8 - ... the Baconian philosophy, but his keen perception, and his broad and spirit-stirring, almost enthusiastic, announcement of its paramount importance, as the alpha and omega of science, as the grand and only chain for the linking together of physical truths, and the eventual key to every discovery and every application.
Page 358 - Neptunia caede rubescunt. 695 regina in mediis patrio vocat agmina sistro necdum etiam geminos a tergo respicit anguis. omnigenumque deum monstra et latrator Anubis contra Neptunum et Venerem contraque Minervam tela tenent.
Page 305 - La grandeur de l'homme est grande en ce qu'il se connaît misérable. Un arbre ne se connaît pas misérable. C'est donc être misérable que de se connaître misérable; mais c'est être grand que de connaître qu'on est misérable. Toutes ces misères-là mêmes prouvent sa grandeur. Ce sont misères de grand seigneur, misères d'un roi dépossédé.
Page 232 - Inter sermones autem, sive voces, excellenter ad conjugium mundi sumitur sola Echo ; ea enim demum vera est philosophia, quae mundi ipsius voces fidelissime reddit, et veluti dictante mundo conscripta est ; et nihil aliud est quam ejusdem simulacrum et reflexio, neque addit quicquam de proprio, sed tantum iterat et resonat.