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Pagina 11
... mind studies to live wisely in that mad element , may yet know , perhaps too well , what an enterprise was here ; and for the Chosen Man of our time who could prevail in it , have the higher reverence , and a grati- tude such as belongs ...
... mind studies to live wisely in that mad element , may yet know , perhaps too well , what an enterprise was here ; and for the Chosen Man of our time who could prevail in it , have the higher reverence , and a grati- tude such as belongs ...
Pagina 18
... mind that he was alive ; biographies and biographic sketches , criticisms , characters , anecdotes , remi- niscences ... minds of men ; on all sides must it be taken up , by various observers , by successive generations , and ever a new ...
... mind that he was alive ; biographies and biographic sketches , criticisms , characters , anecdotes , remi- niscences ... minds of men ; on all sides must it be taken up , by various observers , by successive generations , and ever a new ...
Pagina 19
... mind despised him , no serried ranks of halberdiers and body - guards could shut out some little twinge of pain ; some emanation from the low had pierced into the bosom of the high . Of a truth , men are mystically united ; a mystic ...
... mind despised him , no serried ranks of halberdiers and body - guards could shut out some little twinge of pain ; some emanation from the low had pierced into the bosom of the high . Of a truth , men are mystically united ; a mystic ...
Pagina 29
... mind of England , even of intelligent England . Five years ago , to rank him with Napoleon , like him as rising unattainable beyond his class , like him and more than he of quite peculiar moment to all Europe , would have seemed a ...
... mind of England , even of intelligent England . Five years ago , to rank him with Napoleon , like him as rising unattainable beyond his class , like him and more than he of quite peculiar moment to all Europe , would have seemed a ...
Pagina 35
... mind , peace , honor , length of days : with all this you may make no Goethe , but only some Voltaire ; with the most that was fortuitous in all this , make only some short - lived , unhappy , unprofitable Byron . At no period of the ...
... mind , peace , honor , length of days : with all this you may make no Goethe , but only some Voltaire ; with the most that was fortuitous in all this , make only some short - lived , unhappy , unprofitable Byron . At no period of the ...
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answer Atheism Baillie Balsamo become Beppo better Boehmer Cagliostro called century Chartism Comte de Cagliostro Corn-Law Count Countess dark Denis Diderot Diderot divine Earth Encyclopédie England English Eternity eyes fact faculty father feeling foolish France Francia FRASER'S MAGAZINE French French Revolution friends Gauchos genius Georgel Goethe grand hand head heart Heaven High-Sherriffe History honor hope human Jesuit kind King labor Lamotte light living look Lord manner Marquis matter means Mémoires Mirabeau Monseigneur moral Nature Necklace never noble once Palais-Royal Palermo Paraguay Paris Parliament perhaps persons Pontarlier poor Prince Quack question reader Roger North Rohan Saverne Saxon Scott seems silent Sir Philip Parker sort soul speak spirit Strasburg strong thee things thither thou thought tion true truth universal Vengeur whole withal word worth write young
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Pagina 423 - Judge forthwith put on his cocked hat (which answers to the black cap in England), and pronounced the sentence of the law in the usual terms — " To be hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and may the Lord have mercy upon your unhappy soul...
Pagina 400 - Cobbett also, as the pattern John Bull of his century, strong as the rhinoceros, and with singular humanities and genialities shining through his thick skin, is a most brave phenomenon.
Pagina 436 - We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them!
Pagina 406 - Greys), with a small cocked hat deeply laced, an embroidered scarlet waistcoat, and a light-coloured coat, with milk-white locks tied in a military fashion, kneeling on the ground before me, and dragging his watch along the carpet to induce me to follow it. The benevolent old soldier, and the infant wrapped in his sheepskin, would have afforded an odd group to uninterested spectators. This must have happened about my third year (1774), for Sir George M'Dougal and my grandfather both died shortly...
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Pagina 444 - Anne; an impoverished, an embarrassed man, deprived of the sharer of my thoughts and counsels, who could always talk down my sense of the calamitous apprehensions which break the heart that must bear them alone.
Pagina 64 - Might and Right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
Pagina 315 - ... hear the Rossini-and-Coletti Psalm, you will find the ages have altered a good deal. . . . Nor do I wish all men to become Psalmist Asaphs and fanatic Hebrews. Far other is my wish ; far other, and wider, is now my notion of this Universe. Populations of stern faces, stern as any Hebrew, but capable withal of bursting into inextinguishable laughter on occasion : — do you understand that new and better form of character ? Laughter also, if it come from the heart, is a heavenly thing. But, at...
Pagina 161 - The Lieutenant of Ireland (Strafford) came but on Monday to town, late ; on Tuesday, rested ; on Wednesday, came to Parliament ; but, ere night, he was caged. Intolerable pride and oppression cry to Heaven for vengeance.
Pagina 408 - I've seen him in a' moods in these jaunts, grave and gay, daft and serious, sober and drunk — (this, however, even in our wildest rambles, was but rare) — but drunk or sober, he was aye the gentleman.