Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 pages |
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... tion altogether and to content himself with tracing the varying shapes in which writers who have used neither novel nor drama have clothed their reflections on human character and human behavior and given expression to their dreams and ...
... tion altogether and to content himself with tracing the varying shapes in which writers who have used neither novel nor drama have clothed their reflections on human character and human behavior and given expression to their dreams and ...
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... tion to the essay by virtue of their direct concernment with reflections on 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 ...
... tion to the essay by virtue of their direct concernment with reflections on 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 ...
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... tion . What his contemporaries chiefly saw in the essays was a trend of thought , an open - eyed skepticism shrewdly examining the commonly received notions of human nature , disturbing a secure mental repose , and directly or ...
... tion . What his contemporaries chiefly saw in the essays was a trend of thought , an open - eyed skepticism shrewdly examining the commonly received notions of human nature , disturbing a secure mental repose , and directly or ...
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... tion of his method is , before the Restoration , confined to less notable writers like Sir William Cornwallis , in whom , however , the process of self - analysis is carried on with such complacency and edifying tendency as to produce a ...
... tion of his method is , before the Restoration , confined to less notable writers like Sir William Cornwallis , in whom , however , the process of self - analysis is carried on with such complacency and edifying tendency as to produce a ...
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... tion of literary materials to the personal tastes and opinions of the compiler . It is an evidence of a similar result flowing from similar causes , an independent proof that the essay in the seventeenth century was striving to be born ...
... tion of literary materials to the personal tastes and opinions of the compiler . It is an evidence of a similar result flowing from similar causes , an independent proof that the essay in the seventeenth century was striving to be born ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.