Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of Sir William Temple, Bart, Volume 1Longman, 1836 |
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Page 75 - Exigat, et pulchra facial te prole parentem." 75 Aeolus haec contra : " Tuus, o regina, quid optes, Explorare labor, mihi jussa capessere fas est. Tu mihi quodcumque hoc regni, tu sceptra Jovemque Concilias, tu das epulis accumbere divum, Nimborumque facis tempestatumque potentem.
Page 431 - ... thrown into the canals. But all was silenced by the relations from Utrecht, where the great and ancient cathedral was torn in pieces by the violence of this storm ; and the vast pillars of stone that supported it, were wreathed like a twisted club, having been so strongly composed and cemented, as rather to suffer such a change of figure than break in pieces, as other parts of the fabric did...
Page 253 - Poor Sir John Denham is fallen to the ladies also. He is at many of the meetings at dinners, talks more than ever he did, and is extremely pleased with those that seem willing to hear him, and, from that obligation, exceedingly praises the Duchess of Monmouth and my Lady Cavendish. If he had not the name of being mad, I believe, in most companies, he would be thought wittier than ever he was. He seems to have few extravagancies besides that of telling stories of himself, which he is always inclined...
Page 401 - Now that government which by any of these, or all these ways, takes in the consent of the greatest number of the people, and consequently their desires and resolutions to support it, may justly be said to have the broadest bottom, and to stand upon the largest compass of ground ; and, if it terminate in the authority of one single person, it may likewise be said to have the narrowest top, and so to make the figure of the firmest sort of pyramid.
Page 284 - ... else, but in good plain sense, with show of application if he had business that deserved it, and that with extreme good agreeable humour and dispositions; and thus far of his way without any vice. Besides, being sleepy always by ten o'clock at night, and loving hunting as much as he hates swearing, and preferring cock ale* before any sort of wine.
Page 410 - The style periodique is, where the sentences are composed of several members linked together and hanging upon one another, so that the sense of the whole is not brought out till the close.
Page 389 - Imagination being not so frequently, nor so easily effaced by another, as where new ones are continually arising. This makes duller Men more constant and steady, and quicker Men more inconstant and uncertain; whereas the greatest Ability in Business seems to be the steady Pursuit of some one Thing, 'till there is an End of it, with perpetual Application and Endeavour not to be diverted by every Representation of new Hopes or Fears of Difficulty or Danger, or of some better Design. The first of these...
Page 349 - ... falling upon the Dutch insolence, I said, that however matters went, it must be confessed that there was some merit in my family, since I had made the alliance with Holland, and my wife was like to have the honour of making the war.
Page 13 - But all the world is so almost. Just now they are telling me of a gentleman near us, that is the most wretched creature made, by the loss of a wife that he passionately loved, that can be. If your father would but in some measure satisfy my friends, that I might but do it in any justifiable manner, you should dispose of me as you pleased, carry me whither you would, all places of the world would be alike to me, where you were.
Page 249 - Lordship, in being little satisfied by the wits excuse of employing none upon relations as they do in France; and doubt much it is the same temper and course of thoughts among us, that makes us neither act things worth relating, nor relate things worth the reading. Whilst making some of the company laugh, and others ridiculous, is the game in vogue, I fear we shall hardly succeed at any other, and am sorry our courtiers should content themselves with such victories as those.