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Pagina 23
... soul to heaven through a slip about his neck . " Such was the man . If he did not communicate his thoughts with the unashamed nakedness of Montaigne , he at least surpassed Bacon in this , that he wrote less to instruct others than ...
... soul to heaven through a slip about his neck . " Such was the man . If he did not communicate his thoughts with the unashamed nakedness of Montaigne , he at least surpassed Bacon in this , that he wrote less to instruct others than ...
Pagina 59
... soul that they would like to live two hundred and fifty years hence , to see to what height of empire America will have grown up in that period , or whether the English constitution will last so long . These are points beyond me . But I ...
... soul that they would like to live two hundred and fifty years hence , to see to what height of empire America will have grown up in that period , or whether the English constitution will last so long . These are points beyond me . But I ...
Pagina 65
... soul - the dry misery which parches the coun- tenance into furrows , and renders us liable to our most terrible " flesh - quakes . " There are sorrows , it is true , so great , that to give them some of the ordinary vents is to run a ...
... soul - the dry misery which parches the coun- tenance into furrows , and renders us liable to our most terrible " flesh - quakes . " There are sorrows , it is true , so great , that to give them some of the ordinary vents is to run a ...
Pagina 90
... soul . What is honour without merit ? And what can be call'd true merit , but that which makes a person be a good man , as well as a great man ? If we believe in a future state of life , a place for the re- ward of good men and for the ...
... soul . What is honour without merit ? And what can be call'd true merit , but that which makes a person be a good man , as well as a great man ? If we believe in a future state of life , a place for the re- ward of good men and for the ...
Pagina 105
... soul , bruised by adversity ; and the three hundred pounds for his children , which it has taken his life to save , is eaten and drunken by the mean men of Pennsylvania — by men who are always talking of the virtue and honour of the ...
... soul , bruised by adversity ; and the three hundred pounds for his children , which it has taken his life to save , is eaten and drunken by the mean men of Pennsylvania — by men who are always talking of the virtue and honour of the ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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Addison admirable April Fool Bacon beauty Bishop Bishop of Beauvais called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlesfort Church critical Daniel Defoe death Defoe delight Domrémy earth English essayists eyes fancy fear feel France garret genius give Goldsmith grave Gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour human humour hundred John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift lady learned letter essay literary literature live look Lord Matthew Arnold ment Milton mind Montaigne moral nature never night observe Oliver Goldsmith once pain pass passion perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetry poor prose reader rest Richard Dowling Samuel Johnson seemed short-story essay sometimes soul spirit Stella style suffer sweet Swift thee things Thomas De Quincey thou thought tion told true truth turn verse whole William Hazlitt words writes young
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Pagina 327 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 101 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her \vith insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pagina 317 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 41 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Pagina 288 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 289 - What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own.
Pagina 289 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only.
Pagina 181 - I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 287 - Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! There are our young barbarians, all at play ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...
Pagina 143 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern, to reflect, that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...