The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and WritingsB. Blake, 1837 - 848 páginas |
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... finished the Latin historians , and is at present engaged upon the poets ; he has read the whole of Plautus and Terence , and will soon have finished Lucretius . Moreover , he does not skim these authors over lightly , but wishes to ...
... finished the Latin historians , and is at present engaged upon the poets ; he has read the whole of Plautus and Terence , and will soon have finished Lucretius . Moreover , he does not skim these authors over lightly , but wishes to ...
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... , which about this time I myself adopted . After glancing my eye over the design and order of a new book , I suspended the perusal till I had finished the task of self - examination , till I had 54 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
... , which about this time I myself adopted . After glancing my eye over the design and order of a new book , I suspended the perusal till I had finished the task of self - examination , till I had 54 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
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... . 20 , 21 , 22 ) before I left Switzerland . July 11th . ] - 1 again took in hand my Essay ; and in about six weeks finished it , from by the state of Europe . About this time the 56 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
... . 20 , 21 , 22 ) before I left Switzerland . July 11th . ] - 1 again took in hand my Essay ; and in about six weeks finished it , from by the state of Europe . About this time the 56 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
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... finished it in about a month . I lost some time before I could recover my habit of application . Oct. 23rd . ] - Our first design was to march through Marlborough ; but finding on in- quiry that it was a bad road and a great way about ...
... finished it in about a month . I lost some time before I could recover my habit of application . Oct. 23rd . ] - Our first design was to march through Marlborough ; but finding on in- quiry that it was a bad road and a great way about ...
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... rotten . We afterwards glanced at the church of St. Sulpicius , whose façade ( the pretext and pro- duct of so many lotteries ) is not yet finished . diced , and to converse with some authors , whose 72 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
... rotten . We afterwards glanced at the church of St. Sulpicius , whose façade ( the pretext and pro- duct of so many lotteries ) is not yet finished . diced , and to converse with some authors , whose 72 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
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Página 102 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. 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.
Página 551 - And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Página 101 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
Página 262 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Página xiv - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 25 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 109 - I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Página 86 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation : three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect.
Página 23 - To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great sums, and to compound the small: For who would break with Heaven, and would not break for all?
Página 76 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.