The Reproof of BrutusHurst, Chance, and Company and Effingham Wilson, 1830 - 229 ページ |
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ancient ATTICUS AUTHOR BACON bard behold beneath BISHOP OF LONDON bless Bramford cause censure Christian Church Church of England claim classes clime crime distress doctrines Duke of Wellington duty e'en error evil faith fame genius give grace grief Hadrian VI happiness honours hope hour House House of Lords human ignorance impart improvement Ireland justice JUVENALIS Sat King labour land laws less live Lord Lord Lauderdale Lord Saltoun lyre Malthus mankind maxim mind misery moral muse nature nature's ne'er noble o'er once opinions paths patriot peace people's poor poverty precepts pride principles remedy REPROOF OF BRUTUS rise sacred sect share Sir Francis Sir Francis Burdett society Sophocles spirit strive sublime superior talents taught thought toil truth vice virtue wealth Whate'er Wilmot Horton wisdom woes wrong yield youth zeal
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77 ページ - The vast frame Of social nature changes evermore Her organs and her members, with decay Restless, and restless generation—powers And functions dying and produced at need,— And by this law the mighty Whole subsists, With an ascent and progress in the main : Yet, oh ! how disproportion'd to the hopes And expectations of self-flattering minds !
42 ページ - received encouragement, can only be accounted for by the extreme paucity of more able and consistent writers, disposed to support the injustice of exclusive possession by the few :— . " A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, and if the society Let systems crude no more his cranium vex, Or false alarms the wearied town perplex.
96 ページ - Force first made conquest, and that conquest law, Till superstition taught the tyrant awe ; Then shared the tyranny, then lent it aid, And gods of conquerors, slaves of subjects,
57 ページ - On leur imputoit aussi tous les désordres qui viennent du faste, du luxe, et de tous les autres excès qui jettent les hommes dans un état violent, et dans la tentation de mépriser les loix pour acquérir du bien.
100 ページ - I am not afraid of those tender and scrupulous consciences who are over-cautious of professing and believing THE REPROOF OF BRUTUS. 109 ATTICUS. Since you so earnestly a martyr deem The great Exemplar of the Christian scheme ; Who, tho' revil'd, reviled not again, And on the altar like a lamb was slain ; Let me
67 ページ - Sed Vatem egregium, cui non sit publica vena, Qui nihil expositum soleat deducere, nec qui Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta. JUVENALIS Sat. vii. A TIME there was when Poets led the way, And hail'd the dawning of a brighter day ; Prophetic bards—whose glance, extending far Beyond their age, beheld the rising star Of science glitter with its varied hues, And o'er the world its hallow'd light transfuse.
156 ページ - My Lord," replied M. Boudon, with great dignity, " every one of those miserable wretches, as your Eminence is pleased to call them, is a prime minister in my eyes." -Multi Committunt eadem diversa crimina fato
149 ページ - proprium natura, nec aera fecit, Nee tenues undas. Ad publica muñera veni. Quae tarnen ut detis supplex peto." OVIDII Metamorph. Lib. 6. AUTHOR. WHERE shall I wander next in anxious search Of cures for poverty ?—I'll seek the Church. * *
100 ページ - For he supposed, that to doubt nothing, and to understand nothing, was just the same thing. This was right, and the only method to make young men exercise their rational powers, and not to acquiesce in what they learn mechanically, and by rote, with an indolence of spirit, which prepares them to receive and swallow implicitly whatever is offered them.
70 ページ - should have done if I had known him personally. As to what remains of him now life is over, he occupies the third place among our poets of the present age :—no humble station ; for no other age since that of Sophocles has produced, on the whole earth, so many of such merit : and he is incomparably the most elegant, graceful, and harmonious of the prose-writers."—Landor's Imaginary Conversations.