Estimations in Criticism: Prose-writers: Edward Gibbon. Thomas Babington Maccaulay. The Waverley novels. Charles Dickens. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Sterne and Thackery. IndexA. Melrose, 1909 |
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... lived an exter- nally idle but really studious life , varied by tours in France and Italy ; the toils of which , though not in description very formidable , a trifle tried a sedentary habit , and somewhat corpulent body . The only ...
... lived an exter- nally idle but really studious life , varied by tours in France and Italy ; the toils of which , though not in description very formidable , a trifle tried a sedentary habit , and somewhat corpulent body . The only ...
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... lived in such a world . There are slight palliations also in the notions then prevalent of the primitive Church . There was the Anglican theory , that it was a via media , the most correct of periods , that its belief is to be the ...
... lived in such a world . There are slight palliations also in the notions then prevalent of the primitive Church . There was the Anglican theory , that it was a via media , the most correct of periods , that its belief is to be the ...
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... lived pleasantly and easily among easy , pleasant people ; a gentle hum of local admiration gradually arose , which yet lingers on the lips of erudite laquais de place . He still retains a fame unaccorded to any other historian ; they ...
... lived pleasantly and easily among easy , pleasant people ; a gentle hum of local admiration gradually arose , which yet lingers on the lips of erudite laquais de place . He still retains a fame unaccorded to any other historian ; they ...
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... lived on eightpence a day . What have these people to do with an enjoying English gentleman ? It is easy for a doctrinaire to bear a post - mortem examination , — it is much the same whether he be alive or dead ; but not so with those ...
... lived on eightpence a day . What have these people to do with an enjoying English gentleman ? It is easy for a doctrinaire to bear a post - mortem examination , — it is much the same whether he be alive or dead ; but not so with those ...
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... of the damned in the Grecian Tartarus - to spin for ever on the same wheel round the same pivot . He lived in an age in which disputes on the most subtle points of divinity excited an intense 86 ESTIMATIONS IN CRITICISM.
... of the damned in the Grecian Tartarus - to spin for ever on the same wheel round the same pivot . He lived in an age in which disputes on the most subtle points of divinity excited an intense 86 ESTIMATIONS IN CRITICISM.
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Página 81 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which...
Página 122 - Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey...
Página 54 - Had I believed that the majority of English readers were so fondly attached even to the name and shadow of Christianity; had I foreseen that the pious, the timid, and the prudent, would feel, or affect to feel, with such exquisite sensibility, I might, perhaps, have softened the two invidious chapters, which would create many enemies, and conciliate few friends.
Página 91 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 160 - ... into a dark letterbox, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print; on which occasion, by-the-bye, — how well I recollect it!
Página 90 - But of the vast and complex system of society, of the fine shades of national character, of the practical operation of government and laws, he knows nothing. He who would understand these things rightly must not confine his observations to palaces and solemn days. He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures.
Página 54 - 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 244 - My dear good lady," replied the author, "do not be gulled by such stories; the book is like your young heir there (pointing to a child of three years old, who was rolling on the carpet in his white tunics), he shows at times a good deal that is usually concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence!
Página 99 - The natural effect of this state of things was that a crowd of projectors, ingenious and absurd, honest and knavish, employed themselves in devising new schemes for the employment of redundant capital. It was about the year 1688 that the word stockjobber was first heard in London. In the short space of four years a crowd of companies, every one of which confidently held out to subscribers the hope of immense gains, sprang into existence : the Insurance...
Página 121 - These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now ? See rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread, For...