Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson,, 1858 - 744 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... measures the size . His similes are the il- ron which he neglected in the Samson . He | be compared with the Paradise ... measure of strangely enough , is scarcely ever mentioned , Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of except as an ...
... measures the size . His similes are the il- ron which he neglected in the Samson . He | be compared with the Paradise ... measure of strangely enough , is scarcely ever mentioned , Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of except as an ...
Pagina 8
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be ...
... measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that which is at once The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of perceived to be ...
Pagina 14
... measure was most in- jurious to the cause of freedom . He whom it removed was a captive and a hostage . His heir , to whom the allegiance of every royalist was instantly transferred , was at large . The Presbyterians could never have ...
... measure was most in- jurious to the cause of freedom . He whom it removed was a captive and a hostage . His heir , to whom the allegiance of every royalist was instantly transferred , was at large . The Presbyterians could never have ...
Pagina 29
... measure injures its effect . Machiavelli was unhappily married ; and his wish to avenge his own cause and that of his brethren in misfortune , carried him be - istic manner . We find ourselves introduced yond even the license of fiction ...
... measure injures its effect . Machiavelli was unhappily married ; and his wish to avenge his own cause and that of his brethren in misfortune , carried him be - istic manner . We find ourselves introduced yond even the license of fiction ...
Pagina 42
... measures for stop- ping the evil , appears to us very doubtful , and must , we think , have appeared doubtful to ... measure the result of two peculiarities , which sentations , and stigmatized the whole race of the critics of the ...
... measures for stop- ping the evil , appears to us very doubtful , and must , we think , have appeared doubtful to ... measure the result of two peculiarities , which sentations , and stigmatized the whole race of the critics of the ...
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Pagina 287 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Pagina 16 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands, their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Pagina 16 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Pagina 16 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Pagina 401 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
Pagina 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Pagina 16 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.
Pagina 65 - He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line.
Pagina 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Pagina 16 - ... daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul.