Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... reason to believe , that a col- lected edition of them would be received with favor by the American public . It has been their aim to present them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been ...
... reason to believe , that a col- lected edition of them would be received with favor by the American public . It has been their aim to present them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been ...
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... reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imita- tive arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining them . Even when ...
... reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imita- tive arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining them . Even when ...
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... reason about it only by symbols . We use the word , but we have no image of the thing : and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not ...
... reason about it only by symbols . We use the word , but we have no image of the thing : and the business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not ...
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... reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having something more definite to adore produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians ...
... reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having something more definite to adore produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians ...
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... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the hu- man race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those ...
... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the hu- man race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those ...
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Seite 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Seite 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Seite 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Seite 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Seite 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Seite 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Seite 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Seite 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Seite 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Seite 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...