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... tion of the Saints , the whole wittily touched and virile with broad humour . Sometimes the discourse was in reality a racy fable , rich in local allusion , and excusable only by 1 The Friars first landed in England in 1221. The two ...
... tion of the Saints , the whole wittily touched and virile with broad humour . Sometimes the discourse was in reality a racy fable , rich in local allusion , and excusable only by 1 The Friars first landed in England in 1221. The two ...
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... tion of them are concerned , he is most communicative . His reputation as a classic essayist must be chiefly based on enthusiasm of thought and lucidity of style - not on any newness of handling . The first essays of Leigh Hunt prove ...
... tion of them are concerned , he is most communicative . His reputation as a classic essayist must be chiefly based on enthusiasm of thought and lucidity of style - not on any newness of handling . The first essays of Leigh Hunt prove ...
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... tion to the judicious inquirer . Some have imagined that the garret is generally chosen by the wits , as most easily rented ; and concluded that no man rejoices in his aerial abode , but on the days of payment . Others 5 SAMUEL JOHNSON 51.
... tion to the judicious inquirer . Some have imagined that the garret is generally chosen by the wits , as most easily rented ; and concluded that no man rejoices in his aerial abode , but on the days of payment . Others 5 SAMUEL JOHNSON 51.
Pagina 54
... tion than another that grovels upon the ground - floor . The nations between the tropics are known to be fiery , inconstant , inventive , and fanciful because , living at the utmost length of the earth's diameter , they are carried ...
... tion than another that grovels upon the ground - floor . The nations between the tropics are known to be fiery , inconstant , inventive , and fanciful because , living at the utmost length of the earth's diameter , they are carried ...
Pagina 59
... tion with me ; and I shall like it the better , the sooner it happens ! No young man ever thinks he shall die . He may believe that others will , or assent to the doctrine that " all men are mortal " as an abstract proposition , but he ...
... tion with me ; and I shall like it the better , the sooner it happens ! No young man ever thinks he shall die . He may believe that others will , or assent to the doctrine that " all men are mortal " as an abstract proposition , but he ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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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...