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... tells us of pygmies and giants , flying islands , and philosophising horses , nothing but such circumstantial touches could produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their ...
... tells us of pygmies and giants , flying islands , and philosophising horses , nothing but such circumstantial touches could produce for a single moment a deception on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their ...
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... tell us , were the offspring of the Great Rebellion . Be it so . We are not careful to answer in this matter . These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to ...
... tell us , were the offspring of the Great Rebellion . Be it so . We are not careful to answer in this matter . These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to ...
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... tells a pretty story of a fairy , who , by some mys- terious law of her nature , was condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ...
... tells a pretty story of a fairy , who , by some mys- terious law of her nature , was condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ...
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... tells us that , when Phrynichus produced his tragedy on the fall of Miletus , they fined him in a penalty of a thousand drachmas for torturing their feelings by so pathetic an exhibition . They did not regard him as a great artist , but ...
... tells us that , when Phrynichus produced his tragedy on the fall of Miletus , they fined him in a penalty of a thousand drachmas for torturing their feelings by so pathetic an exhibition . They did not regard him as a great artist , but ...
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... tell the actor to turn out his toes , and remind him that Keeper Hatton was a great dancer . We wish that , in our own time , a writer of a very different order from Puff had not too often forgotten human nature in the niceties of ...
... tell the actor to turn out his toes , and remind him that Keeper Hatton was a great dancer . We wish that , in our own time , a writer of a very different order from Puff had not too often forgotten human nature in the niceties of ...
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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...