Beacon Lights of History: Great writersJ. Clarke, 1896 |
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... never known the sweetness of a father's embrace . " With extraordinary self - conceit , too , he looked upon himself , all the while , in his numerous illicit loves , as a paragon of virtue , being apparently without any moral sense or ...
... never known the sweetness of a father's embrace . " With extraordinary self - conceit , too , he looked upon himself , all the while , in his numerous illicit loves , as a paragon of virtue , being apparently without any moral sense or ...
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... never protested . He had written some fugitive pieces of music , and had attempted and failed in several slight operettas , composing both music and words ; but the work which made Rousseau famous was his essay on a subject propounded ...
... never protested . He had written some fugitive pieces of music , and had attempted and failed in several slight operettas , composing both music and words ; but the work which made Rousseau famous was his essay on a subject propounded ...
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... never had . This was furnished , still in the vicinity of Montmorenci , by another aristocratic friend , the Maréchal de Luxembourg , the fiscal agent of the Prince 32 ROUSSEAU . The "Nouvelle Héloïse;" Comtesse d'Houdetot.
... never had . This was furnished , still in the vicinity of Montmorenci , by another aristocratic friend , the Maréchal de Luxembourg , the fiscal agent of the Prince 32 ROUSSEAU . The "Nouvelle Héloïse;" Comtesse d'Houdetot.
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... never was so much genius before united with so much weak- ness . " The leading spring of his life was egotism . He never felt himself wrong , and the sophistries he used to justify his immoralities are both ludicrous and pitiable . His ...
... never was so much genius before united with so much weak- ness . " The leading spring of his life was egotism . He never felt himself wrong , and the sophistries he used to justify his immoralities are both ludicrous and pitiable . His ...
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... never has been perfect , and certainly in all the early ages of the world governments were imposed upon people by the strong hand , irrespective of their will and wishes , - and these were the only governments which were fit and useful ...
... never has been perfect , and certainly in all the early ages of the world governments were imposed upon people by the strong hand , irrespective of their will and wishes , - and these were the only governments which were fit and useful ...
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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?