Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2;Volume 65Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1865 |
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Pagina 11
... person is considered a disgrace , and mediæval Christianity has taught us an almost mor bid contempt for the flesh . Our clumsy clothing , and the awkwardness of our movements , distract attention from the beauty of man , and leave it ...
... person is considered a disgrace , and mediæval Christianity has taught us an almost mor bid contempt for the flesh . Our clumsy clothing , and the awkwardness of our movements , distract attention from the beauty of man , and leave it ...
Pagina 11
... person is considered a disgrace , and medieval Christianity has taught us an almost mor bid contempt for the flesh . Our clumsy clothing , and the awkwardness of our movements , distract attention from the beauty of man , and leave it ...
... person is considered a disgrace , and medieval Christianity has taught us an almost mor bid contempt for the flesh . Our clumsy clothing , and the awkwardness of our movements , distract attention from the beauty of man , and leave it ...
Pagina 18
... person is considered a disgrace , and mediæval Christianity has taught us an almost mor bid contempt for the flesh . Our clumsy clothing , and the awkwardness of our movements , distract attention from the beauty of man , and leave it ...
... person is considered a disgrace , and mediæval Christianity has taught us an almost mor bid contempt for the flesh . Our clumsy clothing , and the awkwardness of our movements , distract attention from the beauty of man , and leave it ...
Pagina 29
... person were to be thrown into a railway carriage which was moving at full speed ; he would appear to his fellow - passengers to be moving in the opposite direction to them , while in reality the motion of progression was in the train ...
... person were to be thrown into a railway carriage which was moving at full speed ; he would appear to his fellow - passengers to be moving in the opposite direction to them , while in reality the motion of progression was in the train ...
Pagina 88
... person ; concerning which we have seen this explanation : " A certain great personage is said to have exhibited the exercise of a child's plaything called the quiz , in consequence of which the citizens of Dublin and London were for ...
... person ; concerning which we have seen this explanation : " A certain great personage is said to have exhibited the exercise of a child's plaything called the quiz , in consequence of which the citizens of Dublin and London were for ...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40 John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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Pagina 408 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Pagina 83 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Pagina 59 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result...
Pagina 62 - ... the best ideas, on every matter which literature touches, current at the time; at any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very important or fruitful. And I say current at the time...
Pagina 77 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Pagina 59 - ... outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local, and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Pagina 292 - ... days since I was compelled to give a note for seven pounds, to avoid an arrest for about double that sum which I owe. I wrote to every friend I had, but my friends are poor likewise : the time of payment approached, and I ventured to represent my case to Lord Rochford.
Pagina 62 - ... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them, in short.
Pagina 181 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Pagina 69 - 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?