Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... look strictly to it , there is nothing else interesting . ' How inexpressibly comfortable to know our fellow - creature ; to see into him , understand his goings - forth , decipher the whole heart of his mystery : nay , not only to see ...
... look strictly to it , there is nothing else interesting . ' How inexpressibly comfortable to know our fellow - creature ; to see into him , understand his goings - forth , decipher the whole heart of his mystery : nay , not only to see ...
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... looks at , save perhaps some necessitous stargazer bent to make Almanacs ; some thick - quilted watchman , to see what weather it will prove ? The Biographic interest is wanting ; no Michael Angelo was He who built that ' Temple of ...
... looks at , save perhaps some necessitous stargazer bent to make Almanacs ; some thick - quilted watchman , to see what weather it will prove ? The Biographic interest is wanting ; no Michael Angelo was He who built that ' Temple of ...
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... looks out on the world , with his dim horn - eyes , and inwardly forms some unspeakable theory thereof : yet where shall the authentically Existing be per- sonally met with ! Can one of us , otherwise than by guess , know that we have ...
... looks out on the world , with his dim horn - eyes , and inwardly forms some unspeakable theory thereof : yet where shall the authentically Existing be per- sonally met with ! Can one of us , otherwise than by guess , know that we have ...
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... looks . It cannot be unknown to him , for ex- ample , what noise is made about ' Invention ; ' what a supreme rank this faculty is reckoned to hold in the poetic endowment . Great truly is Invention ; nevertheless , that is but a poor ...
... looks . It cannot be unknown to him , for ex- ample , what noise is made about ' Invention ; ' what a supreme rank this faculty is reckoned to hold in the poetic endowment . Great truly is Invention ; nevertheless , that is but a poor ...
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... looks pitiful enough . - It is vain for these persons to allege that they are naturally with- out gift , naturally ... look on , but not even men ; merely sparrows and cock- chafers : yet has he left us a Biography of these ; which ...
... looks pitiful enough . - It is vain for these persons to allege that they are naturally with- out gift , naturally ... look on , but not even men ; merely sparrows and cock- chafers : yet has he left us a Biography of these ; which ...
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Página 595 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 65 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 72 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 437 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 55 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 225 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 355 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 307 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 204 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 476 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.