Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... tion . It is fitting that Carlyle's energetic essay on Biography should stand as prologue to the collection , for this essay not only emphasizes the fact that " man is perennially interesting to man , ” but it insists upon the " worth ...
... tion . It is fitting that Carlyle's energetic essay on Biography should stand as prologue to the collection , for this essay not only emphasizes the fact that " man is perennially interesting to man , ” but it insists upon the " worth ...
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... tion , were it but momentarily , is believed , can there be any use or meaning in it , any enjoyment of it . And what is momentary Belief ? The enjoyment of a moment . Whereas a perennial Belief were enjoyment perennially , and with the ...
... tion , were it but momentarily , is believed , can there be any use or meaning in it , any enjoyment of it . And what is momentary Belief ? The enjoyment of a moment . Whereas a perennial Belief were enjoyment perennially , and with the ...
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... tion passed betwixt me and another lady ( who I believe was the fairest of her time ) as nothing could divert it . I had not been long in London , when a violent burning fever seized upon me , which brought me almost to my death ...
... tion passed betwixt me and another lady ( who I believe was the fairest of her time ) as nothing could divert it . I had not been long in London , when a violent burning fever seized upon me , which brought me almost to my death ...
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... tion of ' Wood's Half - pence ' into Ireland by his famous ' Drapier Letters , ' 1724 ; came to England , 1726 , visited Pope and Gay , and dined with Walpole , for whose behoof he afterwards wrote a letter complaining of the treatment ...
... tion of ' Wood's Half - pence ' into Ireland by his famous ' Drapier Letters , ' 1724 ; came to England , 1726 , visited Pope and Gay , and dined with Walpole , for whose behoof he afterwards wrote a letter complaining of the treatment ...
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... tion ; without inquiring whether in this angry controversy the spirit of Lowth himself is purified from the intolerant zeal which War- burton had ascribed to the genius of the place . It may indeed be observed that the atmosphere of ...
... tion ; without inquiring whether in this angry controversy the spirit of Lowth himself is purified from the intolerant zeal which War- burton had ascribed to the genius of the place . It may indeed be observed that the atmosphere of ...
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Página 617 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 73 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 80 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 459 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 63 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 371 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 325 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 454 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Página 498 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.
Página 202 - Achilles strove; Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove Declare, O Muse, in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended Power! Latona's...