A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies: Original and Selected ...Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 371 pagina's |
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... and Childe Harold 50 Money Obligations 52 Charity . Truth Women . Men · Compensation for Sorrow Religion . Avarice Genius . Mind Hieroglyphical Colours 53 55 57 57 59 60 Page Character · 61 Value of Words - 62 Nature X CONTENTS .
... and Childe Harold 50 Money Obligations 52 Charity . Truth Women . Men · Compensation for Sorrow Religion . Avarice Genius . Mind Hieroglyphical Colours 53 55 57 57 59 60 Page Character · 61 Value of Words - 62 Nature X CONTENTS .
Pagina 41
... Genius is to common love what the fire on the altar is to the fire on the hearth . We cherish it not for warmth or for service , but for an offering , as the expression of our worship . ALL love not responded to and accepted is a spe ...
... Genius is to common love what the fire on the altar is to the fire on the hearth . We cherish it not for warmth or for service , but for an offering , as the expression of our worship . ALL love not responded to and accepted is a spe ...
Pagina 57
... genius ; for it commonly operates a revolution in our way of life , terminates an epoch of infancy or youth which was waiting to be closed , breaks up a wonted occupation , or a household , or a style of living , and allows the ...
... genius ; for it commonly operates a revolution in our way of life , terminates an epoch of infancy or youth which was waiting to be closed , breaks up a wonted occupation , or a household , or a style of living , and allows the ...
Pagina 59
... Genius arises out of the dispro- portionate power and size of a certain faculty , so the great difficulty lies in harmonising with it the rest of the character . 66 Though it burn our house down , who does not ... GENIUS . 59 69 Genius Mind.
... Genius arises out of the dispro- portionate power and size of a certain faculty , so the great difficulty lies in harmonising with it the rest of the character . 66 Though it burn our house down , who does not ... GENIUS . 59 69 Genius Mind.
Pagina 72
... genius Others with more active faculties seized and worked out his magnificent hints and ideas . Walter Scott and ... genius , being the action of reason and imagination , rarely or never . " There seems confusion here , for genius lies ...
... genius Others with more active faculties seized and worked out his magnificent hints and ideas . Walter Scott and ... genius , being the action of reason and imagination , rarely or never . " There seems confusion here , for genius lies ...
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A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies, Original and Selected ... Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Volledige weergave - 1855 |
A Commonplace Book of Thoughts: Memories, and Fancies ... Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Volledige weergave - 1854 |
A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies: Original and Selected ... Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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Pagina 81 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Pagina 85 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed (miserable train!), Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence and their good receives...
Pagina 23 - A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
Pagina 342 - And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Pagina 265 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 6 - Our Life is turned Out of her course, wherever Man is made An offering, or a sacrifice, a tool Or implement, a passive Thing employed As a brute mean, without acknowledgment Of common right or interest in the end; Used or abused, as selfishness may prompt.
Pagina 86 - Tis he whose law is reason, who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard...
Pagina 185 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I...
Pagina 207 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may...
Pagina 226 - ... the proud knowledge of good and evil, with an intent in man to give law unto himself and to depend no more upon God's commandments, which was the form of the temptation.