The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920, Volumen2Scribner's sons, 1923 |
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... England : I would grasp Metternich until I felt his red wet throat distil In blood thro ' these two hands . Hazlitt is always grasping some Metternich . He said himself that Lamb's talk was like snap - dragon , and his own " not very ...
... England : I would grasp Metternich until I felt his red wet throat distil In blood thro ' these two hands . Hazlitt is always grasping some Metternich . He said himself that Lamb's talk was like snap - dragon , and his own " not very ...
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... England . The holding of this office , which Mr. Ainger rightly calls important , doubtless accounts for Twopenny's constant good - humour and felicitous jesting about his own person . A man who has a snug berth other people want feels ...
... England . The holding of this office , which Mr. Ainger rightly calls important , doubtless accounts for Twopenny's constant good - humour and felicitous jesting about his own person . A man who has a snug berth other people want feels ...
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... England , must be considered , together with a host of other subjects of much apparent irrelevance to a statesman's life . So too in the case of his distinguished rival , whose death eclipsed the gaiety of politics and banished epigram ...
... England , must be considered , together with a host of other subjects of much apparent irrelevance to a statesman's life . So too in the case of his distinguished rival , whose death eclipsed the gaiety of politics and banished epigram ...
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... England . The third and last mark to which I call attention is his humour . Nowhere , surely , in the whole field of English literature , Shakespeare excepted , do you come upon a more abundant vein of humour than Carlyle's , though I ...
... England . The third and last mark to which I call attention is his humour . Nowhere , surely , in the whole field of English literature , Shakespeare excepted , do you come upon a more abundant vein of humour than Carlyle's , though I ...
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... England boasts two such artists . Edward Gibbon and Thomas Carlyle . The elder historian may be compared to one of the great Alpine road- ways - sublime in its conception , heroic in its execution , superb in its magnificent uniformity ...
... England boasts two such artists . Edward Gibbon and Thomas Carlyle . The elder historian may be compared to one of the great Alpine road- ways - sublime in its conception , heroic in its execution , superb in its magnificent uniformity ...
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Página 136 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe...
Página 80 - We are all a little wild here with numberless projects of social reform. Not a reading man but has a draft of a new Community in his waistcoat pocket.
Página 75 - Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak; or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Página 33 - In being's floods, in action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and death, An infinite ocean; A seizing and giving The fire of the living : 'Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest him by.
Página 198 - For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison- wall.
Página 135 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Página 286 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Página 86 - To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits! But the divine effort is never relaxed; the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers; and man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.
Página 131 - Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word, Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping...
Página 67 - I've been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world! I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high; To crowded halls, to court and street; To frozen hearts and hasting feet ; To those who go, and those who come; Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home.