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" But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... - Page 886
by Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 1120 pages
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A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue

Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1850 - 566 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition : observe the power of all the passions, in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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A French grammar

Charles Jean Delille - French language - 1851 - 506 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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The book of versions, or guide to French translation

J. Cherpilloud - 1853 - 266 pages
...every condition of* life* ; he must observe the power of all the passions in all their combination, and trace" the changes of the human mind as* they* are modified by various1 institutions and accidental influences* of climate or custom, from the sprightlinessz of infancy...
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... Aids to French Composition: Or, Progressive and Instructive Exercises ...

W. W. Howard - French language - 1854 - 322 pages
...condition [of life] ; he must observe the power of all the passions in ull their combinations, and ^ follow the changes of the human mind [as they are] modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or customs, from' the sprightliness of youth to the...
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Opera omnia

Horace - 1855 - 718 pages
...only half the task of a poet : he must be acquainted, likewise, with all the modes of life * » * * and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate, or custom, from the sprightliuess of infancy to...
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The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith - Conduct of life - 1857 - 452 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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Exercises in French Composition ...

P. F. Merlet - 1858 - 188 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power 19 of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are 20 modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness...
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Essays on Fiction

Nassau William Senior - English fiction - 1864 - 538 pages
...condition — to observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations — and to trace all the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and by accidental influences of climate or custom,' is a task too mighty for a single...
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The French language simplified. Lond. &c., 1856, cm.18, Volume 4

Louis Nottelle - 1868 - 190 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from 2 the sprightliness of infancy to...
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French examination papers ... from 1839 to 1871, arranged and ed. by P.H.E ...

London univ, exam. papers - 1871 - 294 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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