Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1852 - 744 páginas |
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... English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilized world , his place has ...
... English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the general suffrage of the civilized world , his place has ...
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... English Liturgy - the noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
... English Liturgy - the noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse . The Sonnets are more or less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are ...
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... English have been so long accustomed to political speculation , and have enjoyed so large a measure of prac tical liberty , that such works have produced little effect on their minds . We have classical associations and great names of ...
... English have been so long accustomed to political speculation , and have enjoyed so large a measure of prac tical liberty , that such works have produced little effect on their minds . We have classical associations and great names of ...
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... English church , be effaced or patched over . Her doctrines we well know do not tend to intolerance . admits the possibility of salvation out of her own pale . But this circumstance , in itself ho- nourable to her , aggravates the sin ...
... English church , be effaced or patched over . Her doctrines we well know do not tend to intolerance . admits the possibility of salvation out of her own pale . But this circumstance , in itself ho- nourable to her , aggravates the sin ...
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... English heart . Reason and philosophy did not teach the con- Hence it was that he loved to surround his queror of Europe to command his passions , or throne with such men as Hale and Blake . to pursue , as a first object , the happiness ...
... English heart . Reason and philosophy did not teach the con- Hence it was that he loved to surround his queror of Europe to command his passions , or throne with such men as Hale and Blake . to pursue , as a first object , the happiness ...
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Página 286 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and Intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment ; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this, — the People will assuredly...
Página 13 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 287 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 38 - Partridge gave that credit to Mr Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other. Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior upon the stage ? ' O la ! sir,' said he, ' I perceive now it is what you told me.
Página 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 278 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...
Página 401 - Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
Página 16 - by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a. mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Página 16 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.