Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1852 - 744 páginas |
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... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the mterest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never ...
... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the mterest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never ...
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... language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
... language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
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... language is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection . The soils on which this rarity flourishes are in general as We often hear of the magical ...
... language is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection . The soils on which this rarity flourishes are in general as We often hear of the magical ...
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... language . " The criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two in - lustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other congruous styles , when he ...
... language . " The criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two in - lustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other congruous styles , when he ...
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... language , that of Cla- rendon , and that of Hume . The former is not only ably written and full of valuable informa- tion , but has also an air of dignity and sin- cerity which makes even the prejudices and errors with which it abounds ...
... language , that of Cla- rendon , and that of Hume . The former is not only ably written and full of valuable informa- tion , but has also an air of dignity and sin- cerity which makes even the prejudices and errors with which it abounds ...
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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.