The Friendship of Books: And Other LecturesMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 298 Seiten |
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... poet , but that we cannot meet him cordially as a man . No one is more likely to entertain that opinion than an English clergyman , for Milton dealt his blows unsparingly enough , and we come in for at least our full share of them . I ...
... poet , but that we cannot meet him cordially as a man . No one is more likely to entertain that opinion than an English clergyman , for Milton dealt his blows unsparingly enough , and we come in for at least our full share of them . I ...
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... poet ; and if it was in the poet , it must have been because he was not a stock or a stone , but a breathing and suffering man . And there is no writer whose books more force upon us the thought of him as a person than Milton's . There ...
... poet ; and if it was in the poet , it must have been because he was not a stock or a stone , but a breathing and suffering man . And there is no writer whose books more force upon us the thought of him as a person than Milton's . There ...
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And Other Lectures Frederick Denison Maurice Thomas Hughes. proofs that our first poet , Chaucer , was a cordial , genial , friendly man , who could tell us a great many things which we want to know about his own time , and could also ...
And Other Lectures Frederick Denison Maurice Thomas Hughes. proofs that our first poet , Chaucer , was a cordial , genial , friendly man , who could tell us a great many things which we want to know about his own time , and could also ...
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... poet , who was not un- interested in their doings , and who had in his youth mixed with London wits . William Cowper inspired much friendship among men , and still more among women , during his lifetime ; they found him the pleas ...
... poet , who was not un- interested in their doings , and who had in his youth mixed with London wits . William Cowper inspired much friendship among men , and still more among women , during his lifetime ; they found him the pleas ...
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... poets , this is eminently true . Per- haps , from feeling the depressing influence of the We- teaching upon all our minds , they have taken even overmuch pains to show that each one of them comes before us as an I , and will not meet us ...
... poets , this is eminently true . Per- haps , from feeling the depressing influence of the We- teaching upon all our minds , they have taken even overmuch pains to show that each one of them comes before us as an I , and will not meet us ...
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Seite 210 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the...
Seite 244 - 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 249 - 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 282 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 202 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Seite 180 - And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place; Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Seite 250 - 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 206 - 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 282 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Seite 282 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.