Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written ThereD. Bogue, 1850 - 314 Seiten |
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... sensibility ) , you sneak behind another to throw your gauntlet at the whole world , and it re- quires a double stock of stoical firmness not to be laughed out of your boasted zeal and independence as a romantic and amiable weakness ...
... sensibility ) , you sneak behind another to throw your gauntlet at the whole world , and it re- quires a double stock of stoical firmness not to be laughed out of your boasted zeal and independence as a romantic and amiable weakness ...
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... our physical sensibility , this faculty could be of no possible use or influence ; and with those other faculties joined to it , this pretended instinct of self - love will be subject to be everlastingly MIND AND MOTIVE . 123.
... our physical sensibility , this faculty could be of no possible use or influence ; and with those other faculties joined to it , this pretended instinct of self - love will be subject to be everlastingly MIND AND MOTIVE . 123.
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... sensibility and self - interest , are imagination and self - will , or ( in general ) the love of strong ex- citement , both in thought and action . To these sources may be traced the various passions , pur- suits , habits , affections ...
... sensibility and self - interest , are imagination and self - will , or ( in general ) the love of strong ex- citement , both in thought and action . To these sources may be traced the various passions , pur- suits , habits , affections ...
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... sensibility to pleasure or pain is the only principle of action . It is almost too obvious to remark , that sensibility alone , without an active principle in the mind , could never produce action . The soul might lie dissolved in ...
... sensibility to pleasure or pain is the only principle of action . It is almost too obvious to remark , that sensibility alone , without an active principle in the mind , could never produce action . The soul might lie dissolved in ...
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... sensibility ; though even here , we think it evident that habits of intoxication are produced quite as much by the strength as by the agreeableness of the excitement ; and with respect to some other vicious habits , curiosity makes many ...
... sensibility ; though even here , we think it evident that habits of intoxication are produced quite as much by the strength as by the agreeableness of the excitement ; and with respect to some other vicious habits , curiosity makes many ...
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admiration beauty better BOGUE'S ANNUAL CATALOGUE Burke character Chatham circumstances cloth Coleridge coloured Plates common COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE DAVID BOGUE'S ANNUAL delight Dr Johnson DRAWING BOOK Edition effect elegant eloquence English Engravings ESSAY faculties fancy feeling FLEET STREET flower force friends genius George Cruikshank give ground human ideas Illustrations imagination individual interest JOHN BURNET judge labour Lamb liberty live look Lord Lord Chatham man's mankind manner means ment mind moral morocco nature neatly bound Nether Stowey never object opinion ourselves pains Painting party passions person philosopher picture plain pleasure poet poetry prejudice principle proof racters reason Rembrandt Sacred Harp seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakspeare side sion society spirit strength style suppose taste things THOMAS HOOD thought tion Titian truth turn understanding vols whole wish words Wordsworth writings
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Seite 75 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Seite 41 - O'er the white Alps alone ; I saw him, I, Assail'd, fight, taken, stabb'd, bleed, fall, and die. Augur me better chance, except dread Jove Think it enough for me to have had thy love.
Seite 6 - ... with the sanction of Religion. This was even beyond my hopes. I returned home well satisfied. The sun, that was still labouring pale and wan through the sky, obscured by thick mists, seemed an emblem of the good cause; and the cold dank drops of dew, that hung half melted on the beard of the thistle, had something genial and refreshing in them; for there was a spirit of hope and youth in all nature, that turned everything into good. The face of nature had not then the brand of jus divinum on...
Seite 186 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way...
Seite 186 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Seite 1 - Eowe had scarce returned to give an account of his disappointment when the round-faced man in black entered, and dissipated all doubts on the subject by beginning to talk. He did not cease while he stayed ; nor has he since, that I know of.
Seite 246 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 58 - I would fain see the face of him who, having dipped his hand in the same dish with the Son of Man, could afterwards betray him. I have no conception of such a thing; nor have I ever seen any picture (not even Leonardo's very fine one) that gave me the least idea of it." " You have said enough, Mr. Lamb, to justify your choice." " Oh ! ever right, Menenius — ever right ! " " There is only one other person I can ever think of after this," continued Lamb ;" but without mentioning a name that once...
Seite 25 - There was a severe, worn pressure of thought about his temples, a fire in his eye (as if he saw something in objects more than the outward appearance), an intense high narrow forehead, a Roman nose, cheeks furrowed by strong purpose and feeling, and a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth, a good deal at variance with the solemn, stately expression of the rest of his face.
Seite 45 - Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...