Essays on English LiteratureB.M. Pickering, 1861 - 350 pagina's |
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... things . Ignorance on the one hand , and engroffing worldlinefs on the other , are hourly blinding us to the most valuable truths enshrined in very humble forms , and confirming our habits of indifference towards a world of common won ...
... things . Ignorance on the one hand , and engroffing worldlinefs on the other , are hourly blinding us to the most valuable truths enshrined in very humble forms , and confirming our habits of indifference towards a world of common won ...
Pagina 8
... thing as trite or common- place in these confeffions ? In the literal tranf- cript of real life , rarely . It is true that the writer's moral or general reflections may , from the feeble- ness of his reason , be trite in the extreme ...
... thing as trite or common- place in these confeffions ? In the literal tranf- cript of real life , rarely . It is true that the writer's moral or general reflections may , from the feeble- ness of his reason , be trite in the extreme ...
Pagina 9
... but reflection will inftruct him otherwife . Things trivial in themselves will become fignificant in relation to their confequences ; and perfons of ordinary stamp may be remembered and fet forth by fome AUTO - BIOGRAPHIES . 9.
... but reflection will inftruct him otherwife . Things trivial in themselves will become fignificant in relation to their confequences ; and perfons of ordinary stamp may be remembered and fet forth by fome AUTO - BIOGRAPHIES . 9.
Pagina 11
... thing as wearying ; but , on the contrary , the reader is led onward by a quiet but increasing interest , that makes the time lapse by infenfibly . There is throughout the volume , and especially in the earlier chapters , a freshness in ...
... thing as wearying ; but , on the contrary , the reader is led onward by a quiet but increasing interest , that makes the time lapse by infenfibly . There is throughout the volume , and especially in the earlier chapters , a freshness in ...
Pagina 32
... things around him . Almost deftitute of prejudices and predilections himself , his mental eye detected in a moment the inequality and dif- proportion implied in the preferences of other men . Their exclufiveness was a deformity befide ...
... things around him . Almost deftitute of prejudices and predilections himself , his mental eye detected in a moment the inequality and dif- proportion implied in the preferences of other men . Their exclufiveness was a deformity befide ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer Balder beauty becauſe beſt Bofwell cafe Carlyle Carlyle's cauſe character characteriſtic claſs compariſon confifts courſe criticiſm diftinct Divine Engliſh eſpecially eſtimate exerciſe expreffion facred faid fame feems fentiment fhall firſt fome ftill ftyle fuccefs fuch fuffer furniſh fympathy genius Gilfillan greatneſs heart higheſt himſelf hiſtory human illuftrated intereft intereſt itſelf Johnſon juft juſt juſtify laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs literary loft maſter meaſure merit Milton mind moft moral moſt mufic muſt nature obfervation occafion ourſelves paffage paffion perſonal philofopher pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poet's poetic poetry poffible pofition Pollok praiſe preſent profe promiſe purpoſe reader reaſon reſpect reſult ſay ſcene ſchool ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſerious ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow Silvio Pellico ſome ſomething ſpace ſpeak ſpirit ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſtyle ſubject ſuch taſte themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion truth uſe verſe whoſe wiſdom
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Pagina 139 - The word this man spoke has been the lifeguidance now of one hundred and eighty millions of men these twelve hundred years. These hundred and eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever.