Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 páginas |
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Página vii
... human character and human behavior and given expression to their dreams and fancies . It would bring out the intimate relationship which the essay has with the dialogue , the literary epistle , and the Character . Such a history might ...
... human character and human behavior and given expression to their dreams and fancies . It would bring out the intimate relationship which the essay has with the dialogue , the literary epistle , and the Character . Such a history might ...
Página viii
... human conduct . His affectations , if he has any , are limited to the exer- cise of the literary technique and the devices of super- ficial ornamentation elaborately taught in the academies of Rhetoric . This very tendency , kept within ...
... human conduct . His affectations , if he has any , are limited to the exer- cise of the literary technique and the devices of super- ficial ornamentation elaborately taught in the academies of Rhetoric . This very tendency , kept within ...
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... human conduct , but they are sepa- rated from it either by abstractness of theme or by the complete absence of originality both in observation and expression . There was no inherent reason why the traditional form should not have ...
... human conduct , but they are sepa- rated from it either by abstractness of theme or by the complete absence of originality both in observation and expression . There was no inherent reason why the traditional form should not have ...
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... humanity of the sage of Chaeronea . Montaigne's eyes were opened to the prospect of a subtler psychology , an ampler and more flexible view of human character , and to the possibilities of a more sinuous and refined method of treating ...
... humanity of the sage of Chaeronea . Montaigne's eyes were opened to the prospect of a subtler psychology , an ampler and more flexible view of human character , and to the possibilities of a more sinuous and refined method of treating ...
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... humanity in general . The habit of self - centred contemplation became a process of detached psychological analysis . His own moral constitution became merely the anatomy , to be treated with the scientific impartiality of a surgeon ...
... humanity in general . The habit of self - centred contemplation became a process of detached psychological analysis . His own moral constitution became merely the anatomy , to be treated with the scientific impartiality of a surgeon ...
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Términos y frases comunes
actions affection Anatomy of Melancholy Aristotle Bacon behold better body Cæsar cause censure charity Christian commend common conceits confess conscience contemn corruption counsel death delight Democritus desire discourse divinity dizzards doth edition Epistles essay excellent eyes fall fancy fear fool fortune friends FYNES MORYSON give happy hath heaven honor humor Icon Animorum judgment Julius Cæsar kind labor learning liberty literary live man's melancholy methinks mind Montaigne moral nature never Nicholas Breton noble observe opinion ourselves persons philosophers Plato PLUTARCH poet poor princes Professor of English QUINTILIAN reason Religio Medici religion saith scholars Seneca SENECA THE ELDER Sir Thomas Browne soul speak spirit Suetonius Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto vices virtue wherein wisdom wise words worthy writing
Pasajes populares
Página 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 3 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 5 - It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death. But, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 104 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 104 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Página 292 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 2 - Deemonum,1 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the. mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
Página 21 - For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend ; but before you come to that, certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another...
Página 1 - TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief...
Página 18 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.