Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... heart of his mystery : nay , not only to see into him , but even to see out of him , to view the world altogether as ... hearts into action ; - and whether as acted , or as represented and written B I BIOGRAPHY TABLE OF CONTENTS by ...
... heart of his mystery : nay , not only to see into him , but even to see out of him , to view the world altogether as ... hearts into action ; - and whether as acted , or as represented and written B I BIOGRAPHY TABLE OF CONTENTS by ...
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... heart of every neighbour , he lives with every neighbour's life , even as with his own . Of these millions of living men , each individual is a mirror to us ; a mirror both scientific and poetic ; or , if you will , both natural and ...
... heart of every neighbour , he lives with every neighbour's life , even as with his own . Of these millions of living men , each individual is a mirror to us ; a mirror both scientific and poetic ; or , if you will , both natural and ...
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... hearts labour oppressed : The significance of Man's Life ; -which deliverance , even as traced in the unfurnished head , and printed at the Minerva Press , find readers . For , observe , though there is a greatest Fool , as a ...
... hearts labour oppressed : The significance of Man's Life ; -which deliverance , even as traced in the unfurnished head , and printed at the Minerva Press , find readers . For , observe , though there is a greatest Fool , as a ...
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... heart - stirring , heart - appalling , but only vague , glittering Shadows , what must the dead Pagan gods of an Epigoniad be , the dead - living Pagan - Christian gods of a Lusiad , the concrete - abstract , evangelical - metaphysical ...
... heart - stirring , heart - appalling , but only vague , glittering Shadows , what must the dead Pagan gods of an Epigoniad be , the dead - living Pagan - Christian gods of a Lusiad , the concrete - abstract , evangelical - metaphysical ...
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... heart with venous and arterial blood therein , still belong to man that is born of woman : when did he lose any of his spiritual Endowments either ; above all , his highest spiritual Endowment , that of revealing Poetic Beauty , and of ...
... heart with venous and arterial blood therein , still belong to man that is born of woman : when did he lose any of his spiritual Endowments either ; above all , his highest spiritual Endowment , that of revealing Poetic Beauty , and of ...
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Página 617 - 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 71 - 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 78 - 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 459 - 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 61 - ... 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 325 - How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 371 - 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 257 - The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of Thirty-eight, of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author that they might be fairly copied. " Almost every line," he said,
Página 212 - 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 454 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].