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... once in the United States , as many American copies have been im- ported into this country , and as a still larger importation is expected , he conceives that he cannot , in justice to the pub- lishers of the Edinburgh Review , longer ...
... once in the United States , as many American copies have been im- ported into this country , and as a still larger importation is expected , he conceives that he cannot , in justice to the pub- lishers of the Edinburgh Review , longer ...
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... once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence : substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who ...
... once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence : substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who ...
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... Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in indistinct but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair ...
... Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in indistinct but solemn and tremendous imagery , Despair ...
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... once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , therefore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it ...
... once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , therefore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it ...
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... once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years the people had seen the rights which were theirs by a ...
... once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years the people had seen the rights which were theirs by a ...
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Página 468 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 39 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Página 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 21 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woM stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Página 159 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 538 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought...
Página 6 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Página 91 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be...
Página 386 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 418 - ... of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great...