Characteristics: Sketches and EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - Počet stran: 362 |
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... courses ; and ever into new ; and before long into all the universe , where it was uncertain what game you would catch , or whether any . His talk , alas , was distinguished , like himself , by irresolution it dis- liked to be troubled ...
... courses ; and ever into new ; and before long into all the universe , where it was uncertain what game you would catch , or whether any . His talk , alas , was distinguished , like himself , by irresolution it dis- liked to be troubled ...
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... course of it he took occasion to say that the Legislature is defective . " I don't mean any thing about the nonsense of universal suffrage ; but the land proprietors have too great a pro- portion of power . Land is something fixed and ...
... course of it he took occasion to say that the Legislature is defective . " I don't mean any thing about the nonsense of universal suffrage ; but the land proprietors have too great a pro- portion of power . Land is something fixed and ...
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... course there never were such dear , good , kind , amiable people . We know now that they were more detestably licentious than we could have imagined . And then the romance of the Pelew Islanders ! There scarcely ever existed such a set ...
... course there never were such dear , good , kind , amiable people . We know now that they were more detestably licentious than we could have imagined . And then the romance of the Pelew Islanders ! There scarcely ever existed such a set ...
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... course , changed it into all the forms that their imagination could supply . The religion . of the philosophers was Pantheism , that of the people . Polytheism . They knew nothing of a creative power : at first there was Chaos and Night ...
... course , changed it into all the forms that their imagination could supply . The religion . of the philosophers was Pantheism , that of the people . Polytheism . They knew nothing of a creative power : at first there was Chaos and Night ...
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... course , vastly inferior . I have treasured up as many of his phrases as I could ; they will easily be recognized . On one occasion he quoted a line of his own poetry , saying , " If I may quote a verse of mine written when I was a very ...
... course , vastly inferior . I have treasured up as many of his phrases as I could ; they will easily be recognized . On one occasion he quoted a line of his own poetry , saying , " If I may quote a verse of mine written when I was a very ...
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Strana 271 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Strana 226 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Strana 358 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Strana 136 - O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
Strana 115 - For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print, or do it in better verses. It did well enough five years ago when I came to see you, and was moral coxcomb enough at the time you wrote the lines, to feed upon such epithets; but, besides that, the meaning of gentle is equivocal at best, and almost always means poor-spirited, the very quality of gentleness is abhorrent to such vile trumpetings.
Strana 52 - Rasselas has grown somewhat dim. But though the celebrity of the writings may have declined, the celebrity of the writer, strange to say, is as great as ever. Boswell's book has done for him more than the best of his own books could do. The memory of other authors is kept alive by their works. But the memory of Johnson keeps many of his works alive.
Strana 7 - COLERIDGE sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle ; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there.
Strana 141 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Strana 145 - O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace, Wha for thy sake wad gladly die ? Or canst thou break that heart of his, Whase only faut is loving thee ? If love for love thou wilt na gie, At least be pity to me shown ! A thought ungentle canna be The thought o
Strana 7 - A sublime man; who, alone in those dark days, had saved his crown of spiritual manhood; escaping from the black materialisms, and revolutionary deluges, with "God, Freedom, Immortality