Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 1Hart, Carey & Hart, 1854 |
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... believe , that a collected edition of them would be received with favour by the American public . It has been his aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively ...
... believe , that a collected edition of them would be received with favour by the American public . It has been his aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively ...
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... believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with ...
... believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with ...
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... believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury . He may refer all human actions to self- interest , like Helvetius , or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more VOL . I. - 2 influence his poetry ...
... believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury . He may refer all human actions to self- interest , like Helvetius , or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more VOL . I. - 2 influence his poetry ...
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... 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 thought it ...
... 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 thought it ...
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... believe that he was poetically in the right . This task , which almost any other writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicating his meaning circuitously , through a long ...
... believe that he was poetically in the right . This task , which almost any other writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicating his meaning circuitously , through a long ...
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Seite 360 - No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go." Oh! was there ever such a knight in friendship or in war, As our sovereign lord, King Henry, the soldier of Navarre. Ho! maidens of
Seite 320 - WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan; but, as a whole, it
Seite 128 - any thing in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. - The latter manner he practises most frequently in his tragedies, the former in his comedies. The comic characters are, without mixture, loathsome and despicable. The men of Etherege and Vanbrugh are bad enough; those of
Seite 210 - contained one weapon which could pierce him, that weapon his pursuers were bound, before God and man, to employ. "If he may Find mercy in the law, 'tis his: if none, Let him not seek 't of us." Such was the language which the Parliament might justly use.
Seite 360 - fall full well he may— For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray— Press where ye see my white plume shine, amids-t the ranks of war And be your
Seite 366 - FAITHFUL. May I speak a few words in my own defence ? " JUDGE. Sirrah, sirrah! thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet, that all men may see our gentleness to thee, let us hear what thou,
Seite 360 - And mocked the counsel of the wise and the valour of the brave. Then glory to his holy name, from whom all glories are ; And glory to our sovereign lord, King Henry of Navarre.
Seite 363 - I lifted up my head; but methought I saw as if the sun that shincth in the heavens did grudge to give me light; and as if the very stones in the streets and tiles upon the houses did band themselves against me. Methought that
Seite 155 - are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.
Seite 57 - vincit Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages, compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into