Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry (1864) Appendix: The ignorance of man (1862) On the emotion of conviction (1871) The metaphysical basis of toleration (1874) The Public worship regulation bill (1874)Longmans, Green, and Company, 1879 |
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... explain , of his understanding and education was her sister , and his aunt , Mrs. Catherine Porten , according to the speech of that age , a maiden lady of much vigour and capacity , and for whom her pupil really seems to have felt as ...
... explain , of his understanding and education was her sister , and his aunt , Mrs. Catherine Porten , according to the speech of that age , a maiden lady of much vigour and capacity , and for whom her pupil really seems to have felt as ...
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... explain to you . Or try an experiment on yourself . Read the account of a Circassian victory , equal in numbers , in daring , in romance , to the old battle . Will you be able to feel about it at all in the same way ? It is impossible ...
... explain to you . Or try an experiment on yourself . Read the account of a Circassian victory , equal in numbers , in daring , in romance , to the old battle . Will you be able to feel about it at all in the same way ? It is impossible ...
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... explain a thick rock . And what a white original for a green and sky - blue world ! Yet people disputed in those ages not whether it was either of those substances , but which of them it was . And doubtless there was a great deal , at ...
... explain a thick rock . And what a white original for a green and sky - blue world ! Yet people disputed in those ages not whether it was either of those substances , but which of them it was . And doubtless there was a great deal , at ...
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... explains to her old lover rather well her happiness with M. Necker . After living nearly five years at Lausanne , Gibbon returned . to England . Continental residence has made a great alteration in many Englishmen ; but few have ...
... explains to her old lover rather well her happiness with M. Necker . After living nearly five years at Lausanne , Gibbon returned . to England . Continental residence has made a great alteration in many Englishmen ; but few have ...
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... of events which at the present day give such a preponderating influence to our own writers , and make it an arduous matter even to explain the conceivable- ness of the French ambition . Of all men living Edward Gibbon . 29.
... of events which at the present day give such a preponderating influence to our own writers , and make it an arduous matter even to explain the conceivable- ness of the French ambition . Of all men living Edward Gibbon . 29.
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Página 356 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky, All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 388 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Página 385 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Página 386 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats...