Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysPhillips, Sampson,, 1855 - 368 páginas |
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... existence . Nay , we may say that unless seasoned and That in this point , Richter excels all German purified by humour , sensibility is apt to run authors , is saying much for him , and may be wild ; will readily corrupt into disease ...
... existence . Nay , we may say that unless seasoned and That in this point , Richter excels all German purified by humour , sensibility is apt to run authors , is saying much for him , and may be wild ; will readily corrupt into disease ...
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... existence , too feebly to en- lighten us . * The Germans passed for appren- tices in all provinces of art ; and many foreign craftsmen scarcely allowed them so much . Madame de Staël's book has done away with this ; all Europe is now ...
... existence , too feebly to en- lighten us . * The Germans passed for appren- tices in all provinces of art ; and many foreign craftsmen scarcely allowed them so much . Madame de Staël's book has done away with this ; all Europe is now ...
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... existence , are to form themselves ' into harmony and wisdom , and show forth the same wisdom to others that exist along with them . To such a man , high life , as it is called , will be a province of human life certainly , but no ...
... existence , are to form themselves ' into harmony and wisdom , and show forth the same wisdom to others that exist along with them . To such a man , high life , as it is called , will be a province of human life certainly , but no ...
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... existence , is not a hundred to one in favour of the German , compared with the Englishman . This is a weighty item , and indeed the weightiest of all ; for it will be grant- ed , that , for the votary of literature , the rela- tion of ...
... existence , is not a hundred to one in favour of the German , compared with the Englishman . This is a weighty item , and indeed the weightiest of all ; for it will be grant- ed , that , for the votary of literature , the rela- tion of ...
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... existence , impossible . What , they neral grounds ; because even the errors of such would say , have the persuasions , or instinc- men are instructive ; and because , without a tive beliefs , or whatever they are called , of men ...
... existence , impossible . What , they neral grounds ; because even the errors of such would say , have the persuasions , or instinc- men are instructive ; and because , without a tive beliefs , or whatever they are called , of men ...
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Página 330 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 67 - Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand' fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft...
Página 105 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Página 108 - Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty.
Página 107 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a halfforgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of
Página 328 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Página 335 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleet-ditch.
Página 97 - ... a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing...
Página 107 - I may truly say Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786 — 7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people ; and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner,...