 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1873 - 594 pages
...employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon, among the ancients — of Sir Thomas More, Bacon, Paxter (or, to refer at once to later and contemporary instances),...Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question."— Biographia Literaria, chap. xi. to Rome and elsewhere. Having afterwards been appointed governor of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 408 pages
...literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xeuophon, among theancients— of Sir Thomas More, Bacon, Baxter, or (to refer at...Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question."— Biographia Literaria, Chap, zt 1 Coleridge's advice to his young friends was much to the same effect.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...sibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients, of...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question." Foreign names of the highest celebrity may also be quoted. What was Galileo ? A physician. What was... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Authorship - 1882 - 280 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients, of...Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. Whatever the profession or trade chosen, the advantages are many and important compared with the state of a... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Authorship - 1882 - 278 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients, of...Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. Whatever the profession or trade chosen, the advantages are many and important compared with the state of a... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients ;...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. — Biographia Lileraria, (hap. xi. In classifying the various kinds of readers, he (Coleridge) said... | |
 | Books and reading - 1884 - 532 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients ;...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. — Biographia Literaria, In classifying the various kinds of readers, he (Coleridge) said some were... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1891 - 484 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients; of...once to later and contemporary instances, Darwin and Boscoe, are at once decisive of the question. But all men may not dare promise themselves a sufficiency... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English language - 1893 - 190 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employ- 30 ment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients; of...and Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question. 5 But all men may not dare promise themselves a sufficiency of self-control for the imitation of those... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1898 - 488 pages
...possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero and Xenophon among the ancients ;...once to later and contemporary instances, Darwin and Boscoe, are at once decisive of the question. But all men may not dare promise themselves a sufficiency... | |
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... like a restorative atmosphere, or soft music which moulds a dream without becoming its object. If facts are required to prove the possibility of combining weighty performances in literature with full and independent employment, the works of Cicero... 
