The Friendship of Books and Other LecturesMacmillan, 1880 - 384 Seiten |
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... spoken to you of older writers than these . I might have spoken of the time of our Edward III . , and have given you some proofs that our first poet , Chaucer , was a cordial , genial , friendly man , who could tell us a great many ...
... spoken to you of older writers than these . I might have spoken of the time of our Edward III . , and have given you some proofs that our first poet , Chaucer , was a cordial , genial , friendly man , who could tell us a great many ...
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... spoken to you also of some of Shakespeare's contemporaries , especially of that delight- ful and instructive companion Spenser's " Faery Queen , " which makes us feel that without stepping a yard from our native English ground , or ...
... spoken to you also of some of Shakespeare's contemporaries , especially of that delight- ful and instructive companion Spenser's " Faery Queen , " which makes us feel that without stepping a yard from our native English ground , or ...
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... spoken . It is very pleasant to think in what distant parts of the earth it is spoken , and that in all those parts these books which are friends of ours are acknowledged as friends . And there is a living and productive power in them ...
... spoken . It is very pleasant to think in what distant parts of the earth it is spoken , and that in all those parts these books which are friends of ours are acknowledged as friends . And there is a living and productive power in them ...
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... spoken those same words generations ago . He begins to feel as they felt . He learns that men only create their words as they create the breath which goes forth from the lungs with which God has provided them , by help of the air with ...
... spoken those same words generations ago . He begins to feel as they felt . He learns that men only create their words as they create the breath which goes forth from the lungs with which God has provided them , by help of the air with ...
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... , when they have been spoken to about Right and Truth , and have been told that it is to be the business of their lives to do the right , and to know D the truth . I allow that there must have been II . ] 49 ON WORDS .
... , when they have been spoken to about Right and Truth , and have been told that it is to be the business of their lives to do the right , and to know D the truth . I allow that there must have been II . ] 49 ON WORDS .
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Seite 316 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
Seite 253 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Seite 242 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Seite 316 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 324 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Seite 324 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest — that of the whole : where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 322 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 323 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion ... if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior.
Seite 266 - Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.
Seite 278 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.