The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Ulysses in our view . FRANCIS . I HAVE frequently wondered at the common prac- tice of our instructors of youth , in making their pu- pils far more intimately acquainted with the Iliad than with the Odyssey of Homer . This absurd custom ...
... Ulysses in our view . FRANCIS . I HAVE frequently wondered at the common prac- tice of our instructors of youth , in making their pu- pils far more intimately acquainted with the Iliad than with the Odyssey of Homer . This absurd custom ...
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... Ulysses than Achilles . Unexperienced minds , too easily capti- vated with the fire and fury of a gallant general , are apt to prefer courage to constancy , and firmness to humanity . We do not behold the destroyers of peace and the ...
... Ulysses than Achilles . Unexperienced minds , too easily capti- vated with the fire and fury of a gallant general , are apt to prefer courage to constancy , and firmness to humanity . We do not behold the destroyers of peace and the ...
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... Ulysses than Achilles . Unexperienced minds , too easily capti- vated with the fire and fury of a gallant general , are apt to prefer courage to constancy , and firmness to humanity . We do not behold the destroyers of peace and the ...
... Ulysses than Achilles . Unexperienced minds , too easily capti- vated with the fire and fury of a gallant general , are apt to prefer courage to constancy , and firmness to humanity . We do not behold the destroyers of peace and the ...
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... Ulysses being the love of his country , for the sake of which he even refuses immortality , the poet has taken every occa- sion to display it in the liveliest and most striking colours . The first time we behold the hero , we find him ...
... Ulysses being the love of his country , for the sake of which he even refuses immortality , the poet has taken every occa- sion to display it in the liveliest and most striking colours . The first time we behold the hero , we find him ...
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... Ulysses , as it is to a well laboured ploughman , who earnestly waits for its decline , that he may return to his sup- per , Δορπον εποίχεσθαι , while his weary knees are painful to him as he walks along . " - Βλάβεται δε τα γουνατ ...
... Ulysses , as it is to a well laboured ploughman , who earnestly waits for its decline , that he may return to his sup- per , Δορπον εποίχεσθαι , while his weary knees are painful to him as he walks along . " - Βλάβεται δε τα γουνατ ...
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absurd acquainted admiration ADVENTURER Agrestis Amana Amelia Anticlea appear Aristotle bagnio Bagshot beauty behold believe Boileau caliph captain character coach conceal conduct consider contempt countenance daugh death Demosthenes desire dignity discovered distress dreadful effect elegance equally Eugenio Euripides Eutyches excellence eyes falsehood father favour felicity folly fortune Freeman genius gratified guilt hand happiness heart Homer honour hope human husband Iliad images imagination immediately kind labour Lady Forrest learned Longinus looked mankind Mantua ment mind misery morning nature ness never Nouraddin object Odyssey opinion Osmin passion perceived perhaps person Pindar pleasure poem poet Pope present produced prosopopoeia punished Quintilian racter reason received SATURDAY says scarce sentiment servant Sir James soon Sophocles soul specta spirit stockjobber suffered tain tears tenderness Theocritus thou thought Tibullus tion truth TUESDAY ulmo Ulysses vanity Ventosus vice virtue wife wish wretched writers
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Página 126 - ... with some other prey. But this is only one of the innumerable artifices practised in the universal conspiracy of mankind against themselves ; every age and every condition indulges some darling fallacy ; every man amuses himself with projects which he knows to be improbable, and which, therefore, he resolves to pursue without daring to examine them. Whatever any man ardently desires, he very readily believes that he shall some time attain : he whose intemperance has overwhelmed him with diseases,...