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Pagina 37
... pretensions . It rests upon the simple process of feeling , it anchors in experience . It is not , nor it cannot be , the test of abstract , speculative opinions . But half the opinions and prejudices . of mankind , those which they ...
... pretensions . It rests upon the simple process of feeling , it anchors in experience . It is not , nor it cannot be , the test of abstract , speculative opinions . But half the opinions and prejudices . of mankind , those which they ...
Pagina 42
... pretensions of his own . His genius consisted in the faculty of transforming himself at will into whatever he chose : his originality was the power of seeing every object from the exact point of view in which others would see it . He ...
... pretensions of his own . His genius consisted in the faculty of transforming himself at will into whatever he chose : his originality was the power of seeing every object from the exact point of view in which others would see it . He ...
Pagina 49
... pretensions than from an absolute poverty of resources . I have given instances of this elsewhere . Perhaps Shakespear's tragedies would in some respects have been better , if he had never written comedies at all ; and in that case ...
... pretensions than from an absolute poverty of resources . I have given instances of this elsewhere . Perhaps Shakespear's tragedies would in some respects have been better , if he had never written comedies at all ; and in that case ...
Pagina 68
... pretensions to be always dragging them forward into the fore - ground , as if the proverb held here - Out of sight out of mind . Does he , for instance , conceive that no one would ever think of his poetry , unless he forced it upon ...
... pretensions to be always dragging them forward into the fore - ground , as if the proverb held here - Out of sight out of mind . Does he , for instance , conceive that no one would ever think of his poetry , unless he forced it upon ...
Pagina 77
... pretensions ; are less impli- cated in theories ; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind , and , therefore , more truly and naturally . They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at ...
... pretensions ; are less impli- cated in theories ; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind , and , therefore , more truly and naturally . They cannot reason wrong ; for they do not reason at ...
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Pagina 39 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 179 - 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...
Pagina 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pagina 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Pagina 391 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Pagina 178 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Pagina 175 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor...
Pagina 192 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Pagina 178 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Pagina 233 - Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.