Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 5Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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الصفحة 160
... Voltaire . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be ... Voltaire's . Such high and various excellence moved the young prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire on ...
... Voltaire . " A man who has never seen the sun , " says Calderon , in one of his charming comedies , " cannot be ... Voltaire's . Such high and various excellence moved the young prince almost to adoration . The opinions of Voltaire on ...
الصفحة 161
... Voltaire replied with exquisite grace and address . A correspondence followed , which may be studied with advantage by those who wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire ...
... Voltaire replied with exquisite grace and address . A correspondence followed , which may be studied with advantage by those who wish to become proficients in the ignoble art of flattery . No man ever paid compliments better than Voltaire ...
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... of two great treasons : perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the chief influence over the feeble Lewis . She determined to send an agent to Berlin ; and Voltaire was FREDERIC THE GREAT . 175.
... of two great treasons : perhaps he might be induced to commit a third . The Duchess of Chateauroux then held the chief influence over the feeble Lewis . She determined to send an agent to Berlin ; and Voltaire was FREDERIC THE GREAT . 175.
الصفحة 176
... Voltaire put into his Maj- esty's hands a paper on the state of Europe , and received it back with verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has ...
... Voltaire put into his Maj- esty's hands a paper on the state of Europe , and received it back with verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has ...
الصفحة 177
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. But what the influence of Voltaire could not effect , the rapid progress of the Austrian arms effected . If it should be in the power of Maria Theresa and George the Second to dictate terms of ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. But what the influence of Voltaire could not effect , the rapid progress of the Austrian arms effected . If it should be in the power of Maria Theresa and George the Second to dictate terms of ...
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الصفحة 122 - Chancellor, and, for a moment, seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant. The ladies in the galleries, unaccustomed to such displays of eloquence, excited by the solemnity of the occasion, and perhaps not unwilling to display their taste and sensibility, were in a state of uncontrollable emotion. Handkerchiefs were pulled out; smelling-bottles were handed round; hysterical sobs and screams were heard; and Mrs. Sheridan was carried out in a fit. At length the orator concluded. Raising...
الصفحة 117 - The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
الصفحة 104 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks...
الصفحة 262 - Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with materials for a worthless edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, some sheets of which our readers have doubtless seen round parcels of better books.
الصفحة 138 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
الصفحة 300 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
الصفحة 373 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. * Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
الصفحة 215 - We hardly know any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking, and so grotesque, as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other...
الصفحة 67 - ... of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges, were worn every day by the footsteps of an innumerable multitude of worshippers. The schools and temples drew crowds of pious Hindoos from every province where the Brahminical faith was known. Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die — for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river. Nor was superstition the only motive...