Macmillan's Magazine, Volumen48Macmillan and Company, 1883 |
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... friends confirmed one another in their crusade against indiscriminate and demoralising charity . It was at this time that Green , who spent pretty nearly all his income as vicar upon the parish , found himself obliged , for the sake of ...
... friends confirmed one another in their crusade against indiscriminate and demoralising charity . It was at this time that Green , who spent pretty nearly all his income as vicar upon the parish , found himself obliged , for the sake of ...
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... friends who knew all he did in those days , and who conceives that it was a mistake to describe him , as some ... friend . Green was a born historian , who would have been emi- nent without any help except that of books . But he was wise ...
... friends who knew all he did in those days , and who conceives that it was a mistake to describe him , as some ... friend . Green was a born historian , who would have been emi- nent without any help except that of books . But he was wise ...
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... friends agreed with him , that the style of the earlier chapters was too much in the eager , quick , sketchy , " point- making " manner of his Saturday Review articles , " and did not possess ( says the friend I have already quoted ) ...
... friends agreed with him , that the style of the earlier chapters was too much in the eager , quick , sketchy , " point- making " manner of his Saturday Review articles , " and did not possess ( says the friend I have already quoted ) ...
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... - hand work , and affording no evidence of original power . Unjust the criticism certainly was , for there was abundant origin- ality in the views set forth in the Short History ; but it made his friends urge him to John Richard Green . 63.
... - hand work , and affording no evidence of original power . Unjust the criticism certainly was , for there was abundant origin- ality in the views set forth in the Short History ; but it made his friends urge him to John Richard Green . 63.
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... friends to pursue the narrative which , in the Making of England , he had carried down to the reign of Egbert . The winter of 1881 was spent at Mentone , and the following summer in London . He continued very weak , and some- times ...
... friends to pursue the narrative which , in the Making of England , he had carried down to the reign of Egbert . The winter of 1881 was spent at Mentone , and the following summer in London . He continued very weak , and some- times ...
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Página 434 - Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Página 408 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity...
Página 496 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference.
Página 317 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only Acting lends, — The youngest of the sister Arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless. Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, IJlusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Página 492 - ... giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrorS.
Página 496 - And thus the certainty of being able to exchange all that surplus part of the produce of his own labour, which is over and above his own consumption, for such parts of the produce of other men's labour...
Página 489 - Of any passion, thus innate and irresistible, the existence may reasonably be doubted. Human characters are by no means constant; men change by change of place, of fortune, of acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Página 492 - Beings, All but a scattered few, live out their time, Husbanding that which they possess within, And go to the grave, unthought of.
Página 489 - After his oracle Dr. Johnson, my friend Sir Joshua Reynolds denies all original genius, any natural propensity of the mind to one art or science rather than another. Without engaging in a metaphysical or rather verbal dispute, I know, by experience, that from my early youth I aspired to the character of an historian.
Página 491 - In my infant and boyish days, too. I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition.