Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards]. |
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... common , that " example is better than precept . " The latter is compulsive , the former attractive . There can be no question as to which is more powerful , the statue- like principle or its living impersonation ; and here is the advan ...
... common , that " example is better than precept . " The latter is compulsive , the former attractive . There can be no question as to which is more powerful , the statue- like principle or its living impersonation ; and here is the advan ...
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... common centre they have lured together to ruin or success . Biography has corresponding power for good or ill ; the portrait has its magic charm , if the friendly grasp boasts its electric fire . THE BIOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE occupies then ...
... common centre they have lured together to ruin or success . Biography has corresponding power for good or ill ; the portrait has its magic charm , if the friendly grasp boasts its electric fire . THE BIOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE occupies then ...
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... common concerns of humanity ; that he looked on life not more as a writer than as a man . While improving in the art of poetry , in the capability of uttering his thoughts in the form best adapted to express them , he was likewise ...
... common concerns of humanity ; that he looked on life not more as a writer than as a man . While improving in the art of poetry , in the capability of uttering his thoughts in the form best adapted to express them , he was likewise ...
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... common friends I resisted ; and thus we continued to go on our way apart . " Nevertheless , as we have seen , the two antagonistic poets at last met beneath one roof , although , as was not to be wondered at , there was no lavish ex ...
... common friends I resisted ; and thus we continued to go on our way apart . " Nevertheless , as we have seen , the two antagonistic poets at last met beneath one roof , although , as was not to be wondered at , there was no lavish ex ...
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... common law as guilty of sedition , if not of treason . The accomplished governor of the same state said ditto to the judge , and added fresh denun- ciations of his own . Almost the only person in New England of any note , as I ...
... common law as guilty of sedition , if not of treason . The accomplished governor of the same state said ditto to the judge , and added fresh denun- ciations of his own . Almost the only person in New England of any note , as I ...
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Abd-el-Kader Admiral afterwards Algiers Andrew Marvell appeared artist Avignon beauty became brought called Cervantes character Charles Christian church Cochlæus commenced Cuvier death Don Quixote eloquence England eyes faith father favour feeling Franklin Pierce French friends frigate gave genius Girondists Goethe hand heart Hemans Hogarth honour human India intellectual Italy king labour lady less letter liberty literary living Lord Lord Ashley Macready ment mind moral Musselburgh Napier nation nature never night noble once party passed passion person picture poem poet poetry political popular present racter Raleigh religious rendered returned Robespierre Rome Rousseau scene Schiller seems sent Sheridan ship Sir Charles Napier slavery soon soul spirit talent things thou thought tion took true truth whole words write young
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Página 109 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Página 190 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way. In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 264 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 275 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Página 255 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Página 196 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 270 - BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. And watching, with eternal lids apart. Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 184 - I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Página 196 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 168 - O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight, — Where are those dreamers now ? One, 'midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream is laid, — The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade. The sea, the blue, lone sea, hath one, He lies where pearls lie deep, — He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep.