 ... such variety of actions and passages of life and government, such freedom of thought, such boldness of expression, such bounty to his friends, such scorn of his enemies, such honour of learned men, such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such...  The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts, and ... - Page 256by Jonathan Swift - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Abel Boyer - Europe - 1714 - 446 pages
...Editlm. Eft tern of Good, fuch Knowled? of Life, fuch Contempt cf Death, with fuch Fiercenejs of Nature and Cruelty of Revenge, could never be represented but by him that pojfefs'd them : and I efteem Lucia n to have been no more Capable of Writing t han of Afting what... | |
 | William Temple - Europe - 1757 - 564 pages
...nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be reprefented but by him that pofiefied them ; and I efteem Lucian to have been no more capable of writing, than...acting what Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the fcholar or the fophift ; and in all the other, the tyrant and the commander. The next to thefe, in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature aud cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed them ; and I esteem Lucian no more capable of writing, than of acting as Phalaris did. In all one writ , you find the scholar... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 448 pages
...such esteem of good, such knowledge of life) such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented...the commander." — TEMPLE, ut supra, vol. III. p. 4r63. ^ rays ; nor dare they bark, though much provoked at her refulgent visage, whether seen in puddle... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented...other, the tyrant and the commander." — TEMPLE, vt supra, vol. III. p. 463rays ; nor dare they bark, though much provoked at her refulgent visage,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented...scholar and the sophist ; and, in all the other, the tyrantand the commander." — TEMPLE, vt supra, vol. HI. p. 463. rays ; nor dare they bark, though... | |
 | Sir William Temple - Europe - 1814 - 580 pages
...such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented...Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar or the sophist ; and in all the other, the tyrant and the commander. The next to these, in time, are... | |
 | William Temple - Europe - 1814 - 606 pages
...more capable of writing, than of acting what Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar or the sophist ; and in all the other, the tyrant and the commander. The next to these, in time, are Herodotus, Thueydides, Hippocrates, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle... | |
 | Sir William Temple - 1821 - 390 pages
...such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature, and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented...Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar or the sophist ; and in all the other, the . tyrant and the commander. *~* The next to these, in time,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...more capable of writing, than of acting what Phalaris did. In all one writ, you find the scholar or the sophist ; and in all the other, the tyrant and the commander. The next to these, in time, are Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle... | |
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