Beacon Lights of History: Great writersJ. Clarke, 1896 |
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... kind of sentimental religiosity which re- volted at their ribald scoffing , although he never protested . He had written some fugitive pieces of music , and had attempted and failed in several slight operettas , composing both music and ...
... kind of sentimental religiosity which re- volted at their ribald scoffing , although he never protested . He had written some fugitive pieces of music , and had attempted and failed in several slight operettas , composing both music and ...
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... kind , also woods , lawns , parks , gardens , all for nothing ; the luxuries of civilization , the glories of Nature , and the delights of friendship combined . It was an earthly paradise , given him by enthusiastic admirers of his ...
... kind , also woods , lawns , parks , gardens , all for nothing ; the luxuries of civilization , the glories of Nature , and the delights of friendship combined . It was an earthly paradise , given him by enthusiastic admirers of his ...
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... Books are mere annals of senti- mental debauchery ; the last six , a kind of thermometer of friendship , containing an accurate account of kisses tistic . given and received , with slights , huffs , visits 58 ROUSSEAU . The "Confessions"
... Books are mere annals of senti- mental debauchery ; the last six , a kind of thermometer of friendship , containing an accurate account of kisses tistic . given and received , with slights , huffs , visits 58 ROUSSEAU . The "Confessions"
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... kind and gracious treatment ; a hero in their eyes to the last , with no drawbacks such as marred the fame of Byron or of Burns . That so great a genius as Scott is fading in the minds of this generation may be not without comfort to ...
... kind and gracious treatment ; a hero in their eyes to the last , with no drawbacks such as marred the fame of Byron or of Burns . That so great a genius as Scott is fading in the minds of this generation may be not without comfort to ...
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... kind , to make him capable of such a discrimination . More important to him than any literary friend- ship was his partnership with James Ballantyne , the printer , whom he had known from his youth . This in the end proved unfortunate ...
... kind , to make him capable of such a discrimination . More important to him than any literary friend- ship was his partnership with James Ballantyne , the printer , whom he had known from his youth . This in the end proved unfortunate ...
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Página 336 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Página 85 - As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 175 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Página 387 - Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Página 240 - To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! Life 's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Página 164 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Página 475 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Página 378 - But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or on the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it.
Página 378 - Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People...
Página 85 - This is my own, my native land ?" Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign stand?