The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, 第 3 巻W. Pickering, 1837 |
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... once the most dispassionate , and the most affectionate , and who of all his attractions set the least value on the multiplicity of his literary acquisitions . To the Editor of The Friend . SIR , —I HOPE you will not ascribe to pre ...
... once the most dispassionate , and the most affectionate , and who of all his attractions set the least value on the multiplicity of his literary acquisitions . To the Editor of The Friend . SIR , —I HOPE you will not ascribe to pre ...
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... once to seek refuge in the elder ages of our greatness . There yet survives so much of the character bred up through long years of liberty , danger , and glory , that even what this age pro- duces bears traces of those that are past ...
... once to seek refuge in the elder ages of our greatness . There yet survives so much of the character bred up through long years of liberty , danger , and glory , that even what this age pro- duces bears traces of those that are past ...
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... once a title of reverence to him : and when with distinguished powers he sets himself apart from the age , and above it , as the teacher of high but ill- understood truths , he will appear at once to a ge- nerous imagination in the ...
... once a title of reverence to him : and when with distinguished powers he sets himself apart from the age , and above it , as the teacher of high but ill- understood truths , he will appear at once to a ge- nerous imagination in the ...
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... once clearly perceived , and steadily kept in view , I do not see why a belief in the progress of human na- ture towards perfection should dispose a youthful mind , however enthusiastic , to an undue admira- tion of his own age , and ...
... once clearly perceived , and steadily kept in view , I do not see why a belief in the progress of human na- ture towards perfection should dispose a youthful mind , however enthusiastic , to an undue admira- tion of his own age , and ...
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... once , not with- out indignation ; but I write in the spirit of the ancient fable of Prodicus , representing the choice of Hercules . Here is the World , a female figure approaching at the head of a train of willing or giddy followers ...
... once , not with- out indignation ; but I write in the spirit of the ancient fable of Prodicus , representing the choice of Hercules . Here is the World , a female figure approaching at the head of a train of willing or giddy followers ...
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198 ページ - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
121 ページ - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is 't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
119 ページ - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
197 ページ - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
253 ページ - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired...
142 ページ - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
184 ページ - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
197 ページ - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
121 ページ - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
247 ページ - 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...