Edward Gibbon. Bishop Butler. Sterne and Thackeray. The Waverley novels. Charles Dickens. Thomas Babington Maculay. Béranger. Mr. Clough's poems. Henry Crabb Robinson. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning. The ignorance of man. On the emotion of conviction. The metaphysical basis of toleration. The public worship regulation billLongmans, Green and Company, 1891 |
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... tell him about the battle of Marathon ; what will he be able to comprehend of all that you mean by it : of all that halo which early impression and years of remembrance have cast around it ? He may add up the killed and wounded ...
... tell him about the battle of Marathon ; what will he be able to comprehend of all that you mean by it : of all that halo which early impression and years of remembrance have cast around it ? He may add up the killed and wounded ...
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... telling statement- ' he shows that evidence to be ! I won't give up the apostolic miracles , I cannot ; yet I must believe what has as much of historical testimony in its favour . It is no reductio ad ab- surdum that we must go over to ...
... telling statement- ' he shows that evidence to be ! I won't give up the apostolic miracles , I cannot ; yet I must believe what has as much of historical testimony in its favour . It is no reductio ad ab- surdum that we must go over to ...
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... tell the truth . A monotonous writer is suited only to monotonous matter . Truth is of various kinds -- grave , solemn , dignified , petty , low , ordinary ; and an historian who has to tell the truth must be able to tell what is vulgar ...
... tell the truth . A monotonous writer is suited only to monotonous matter . Truth is of various kinds -- grave , solemn , dignified , petty , low , ordinary ; and an historian who has to tell the truth must be able to tell what is vulgar ...
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... telling incidents selected . Perhaps experience shows that there is something English in this talent . The Germans are more elaborate in single monographs ; but they seem to want the business - ability to work out a complicated ...
... telling incidents selected . Perhaps experience shows that there is something English in this talent . The Germans are more elaborate in single monographs ; but they seem to want the business - ability to work out a complicated ...
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... telling minuteness of delinea- tion . The history of a thousand years does not admit the pic- torial detail which a Scott or a Macaulay can accumulate on the history of a hundred . Gibbon has done his best to avoid the dryness natural ...
... telling minuteness of delinea- tion . The history of a thousand years does not admit the pic- torial detail which a Scott or a Macaulay can accumulate on the history of a hundred . Gibbon has done his best to avoid the dryness natural ...
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Página 45 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 387 - Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers; Families by tens and dozens, Brothers,...
Página 384 - 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 331 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 356 - COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE 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. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river...
Página 155 - Midst furs and silks and jewels sheen He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King!
Página 385 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Página 267 - Ah no, the bliss youth dreams is one For daylight, for the cheerful sun, For feeling nerves and living breath — Youth dreams a bliss on this side death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep ; It hears a voice within it tell : Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.